>From: "Andrej Borsenkow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: "Mandrake cooker list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [Cooker] Again and again - KDE default locale problem
>Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 10:33:36 +0300
>
>After having it for the 5th time ... (KDE 2.0.0, KDE 2.0.1, KDE 2.1Beta ...)
>
>System default locale is set to Russian (LC_*, LANG == ru, LANGUAGE=ru:de:en).
>New user starts KDE for the first time (~/.kde does not exist).
>
>What happens, is:
>
>- some messages (initial greeting, menus) come up in Russian
>- BUT looking in KDE config, country/language are set to "C", charset is
>"ASCII"
>- which means, all Russian messages are displayed as "???????"
>
>Why, WHY does not KDE takes default settings from environment variables? And
>if it ignores them - why, WHY does it try to display some mesages - what is
>important, menus - in Russian with charset set to ASCII?
>
>BTW after updating to KDE from Cooker, I've got two Trash's - one in English
>and on in Russian. The Russian one can be deleted; the English one not.
>
>-andrej
>
>Have a nice DOS!
>B >>
>
>
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