khausler@gmx.de wrote:
Is your LANG exported? KDE doesn't seem to use it anyway (X does in some obscure ways use LC_ abd LANG vars, but KDE honors the control center settings AFAIK)... Also, double check that there is nothing overriding the LANG anywhere in the way (i had some problems with this, eg. 'echo blah | less' launched fortune :>).Hello. I discovered this by trying to get the euro displayed in konsole, it worked when I started konsole from the command line, because it inherited my environment from bash. However when I click on the konsole link in the Panel, or type in konsole in the Application Launcher, the euro will not work, it just displays as ? (question mark). To discover what environment KDE is passing to these applications I type in "env > kde.env" in the Application Launcher. (And diff it with a corresponding bash.env, and trim out the irrelevant details.) bash.env contains:MM_CHARSET=ISO-8859-15 LANG=de_DE@eurokde.env contains: < LANG=C Even when I specify Germany in the control panel, and German as the language, KDE always passes LANG=C to its applications. I have no file (except maybe /etc/environment) that contains a line like LANG=C. Certainly my .xsession contains LANG=de_DE@euro.
Last resort is to create /usr/local/bin/<your_app> shellscript that sets LANG and execs /usr/bin/<your_app> (this should work if /usr/local/bin is before /usr/bin in your PATH)... This is similar to your hack, probably little bit cleaner (and a bit less probable to work).
Thanks Kurt Häusler
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