Re: Bug#266075: some localization issues
> it should be fairly easy to write a script that handles the locale
> environment of gdm. But i don't really use gdm so I don't know the
> possible values and i have little spare time to study it right now.
> If someone would give me the variable that must be set and the
> possible entries for the available locales, I'd be happy to write the
> script.
That seems fairly easy. You need to set LANG in /etc/default/gdm. The
value is the language's ISO-639 code
> KDE is already localized by default (at least for Greek it is) once
> the user chooses the correct task in tasksel (thus making sure the
> correct kde-i18n-xx package is installed). There is nothing specific
> to Greek though so I guess it should work for all locales the same
> way. localization-config does nothing for kde3 localization. By
> localization, I mean the translated menus, etc. The X keyboard stuff
> is dealt separetely.
But, I guess that default KDE sessions use the configured language as
a default and not English, and then do not prompt the user about the
language, is it?
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