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Re: Changing locale



On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 01:42:47PM +0530, 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".
> 
> 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?
> 
> 2. I am using Debian 3.1 with many backports. Does using backports cause
> problems with locale?
> 
> 3. A server that I am not a superuser on, probably has a faulty
> /usr/share/i18n/locales/ta_IN. How can I bypass this?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
Hi Masatran,
just a guess. Try putting 'export LANG=ta_IN' in .gnomerc
also, what does 'locale' show?
Cheers,
Kev
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