rowan, 2003-09-27 17:24:33: > I have just installed all the files on my discs that relate to the > Russian language.
> But when I tried to check out my handywork just to ensure that it had > worked properly I could not get any Russian characters to appear > anywhere. I tested it on openoffice word processor - nothing. I have > tried to configure both wp writers but no joy. > What may have I overlooked or done wrong ? Let's check that things are actually set up. What's the result of: $ ls /usr/lib/locale/ My result includes ru_RU, ru_RU.koi8r and ru_RU.utf8. I'm not sure I need all three - but if you don't see _any_ of those, I'm pretty sure you don't have a Russian locale available. (If that's the case, I can only point you to the man page for localedef and to google - coz you've got to get a Russian locale set up and I have no idea how you'd do that with Mandrake. With Debian, you could just add "ru_RU.UTF-8" to /etc/locale.gen, then run locale-gen, and that would take care of it.) Now, assuming that's okay. What happens when you try this: $ LANG=ru_RU PROGRAM_NAME_HERE (Try it with a few programs that are pretty sure to have Russian translations. Most GNOME and KDE programs do.) When I do this: $ LANG=ru_RU AbiWord-2.0 ...I get AbiWord, with Russian menus, dialogs, etc. If that sort of thing works for you, you might try putting this line... LANG=ru_RU ...in your ~/.xsession file (...or whatever the equivalent is on your machine). That works for me. (BTW, I've just tried starting OpenOffice with LANG=ru_RU and it didn't work. But never mind, OO is just plain odd. I'm more interested in whether you can get other programs to work nicely first.) (Sorry for the mess. I need sleep :) Tim -- Timothy Musson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~trmusson/
