Re: Changing locale

[Alvin Oga <aoga@mail.Linux-Consulting.com>]

hi ya

On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Masatran (Deepak), R. wrote:

> I am changing my locale to "ta_IN". I have "export LANG='ta_IN'" in my
> .bashrc, '. "$HOME/.bashrc"' in my .bash_profile, and
> '. "$HOME/.bash_profile"' in my .xsession. In GDM, I am using "Default
> System Session".

those settings only affects xterm or things that you popup in X11

> 1. But for example, in Gnome -> Applications-menu -> Games -> Ataxx, "Ataxx"
> is displayed in English even though its Launcher-properties shows that the
> Tamil name is also available. What am I doing wrong?

KDE/gnome has its own controls for its menu under "Language" in its
settings where it controls fonts, language, foreground/background colors
etc

these kde/gnome menu settings have zero affect on applications in
xterm/konsole
 
c ya
alvin