hi, bit of background: my system is setup to use C/en as default (there are few things i hate more than localized compiler errors). however some desktop applications (most noteably: gramps) i'd like to run in german.
On 04/03/2014 02:31 PM, Ross Gammon wrote: > > I have come across similar problems before. I believe that Gramps does > not support non-UTF-8 locales. i sincerely hope that i got rid of all non-utf8 locales a long time ago. however,... > If you start with "LANG=de", gramps > will default to the "C" locale. > > Could you try?: > $ LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 gramps > did that (and also tried `LANG=de_AT.UTF-8 gramps` which is the actual locale i'm trying to use) to no avail. however, while doing so, i noticed that (after a recent re-installation of the entire system) the only locale i had configured on my system was en_US.UTF-8. building de_AT.UTF-8 did not help. then i dug into gramps a little bit, and noticed that "-v" should print out (among other things) the currently used locale: $ locale LANG=en_US.utf8 LANGUAGE=en_US:en ... LC_ALL= $ LANG=de_AT.UTF-8 /usr/bin/gramps -v ... Environment settings: --------------------- LANG : en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE : en:en GRAMPSI18N: not set GRAMPSHOME: not set GRAMPSDIR : not set ... # so i tried using LANGUAGE instead: $ LANGUAGE=de /usr/bin/gramps -v ... Environment settings: --------------------- LANG : de_DE.UTF-8 LANGUAGE : de GRAMPSI18N: not set GRAMPSHOME: not set GRAMPSDIR : not set PYTHONPATH: ... # that looked promising! $ LANGUAGE=de /usr/bin/gramps # gives me a german gramps! i'm sure it did work wit LANG previously. anyhow, i'll adapt my scripts to use LANGUAGE now. mdar IOhannes
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