By sheer luck, I've found out that I can switch from a "regular" (i.e.,
American English) Mozilla to a "traditional Chinese Mozilla" (i.e.,
complete with Chinese tool bar, task bar, mail agent, etc., Chinese
everything), by running Mozilla from an x-terminal, preceded with a LANG
statement as follows:
LANG=zh_TW.Big mozilla
You can play the same trick with other programs, such as gedit,
oowriter, etc.
Of course, the above trick is not limited to Chinese. For example, you
can use:
LANG=ja_JP mozilla (or oowriter, gedit, etc.) to switch into a Japanese
windows environment that will make a Japanese user feel right at home.
To me, this is a very exciting discovery. This exemplifies an important
trend that, even in desktops, there are more and more distinct
advantages of Linux that are being gradually developed and discovered
that will make more Windows users willing to accept its current
shortcomings and wait for some of those gaps to be closed.
BTW, this major "breakthrough" (for me any way) works best with GNOME.
It has some glitches in KDE. (Needless to say, I am switching to
GNOME!) It works in Fedora Core 1/2/3, but encounters some problems
with Mandrake. wayne
