[mailed and posted]
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Marc Lehmann wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 11:50:55AM +0100, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > # LANGUAGE=de
> > # gimp &
> >
> > Should be IMHO enough.
>
> This is usually a very bad idea, as most linux distributions (redhat,
> debian, suse...) do not come with a "de"-locale (or jp, ch... etc
> locale).
My redhat 6.2 system does. Furthermore, my gimp installation (from source
but a few minor versions behind) put a gimp.mo and a gimp-libgimp.mo in
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/
and not in region specific places under
de_AT
de_BE
de_CH
de_DE
de_LU
> Usually something like "german" oder "de_DE" ist much better.
But that advice remains true.
-j
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