Alastair Scott wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday 02 July 2002 1:27 pm, robin wrote: > > >>I tried that - checked Turkish, but all my locale settings still >>read en_US. >> > > This is nearly as confusing as Windows ;) > > There are two components to the locale: > > - - the country, which contains all support other than actual translated > text; > > - - the language, which contains translated text strings. > > The country can be set straight off but, to set the locale, you need to > download and install the appropriate i18n package from the KDE3 > 'n0-architecture' folder (which is sometimes omitted or lost on > mirrors). Here's one: > > ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.0.1/Mandrake/noarch > > Then Personalisation | Country and Language automatically picks up the > new locale. (Not that there's much difference between the UK and US > translations that I can determine; no 'Oh, I say' when an warning box > pops up or 'What ho!' as a progress bar crawls across the screen, for > example ;) > > Unfortunately there's no ...tr... file, so the Turkish locale appears > not to be translated (your moment of immortality in the Open Source > movement awaits you :) This confirms it: > > http://i18n.kde.org/stats/doc/ > > If the languages you know are all supported this is brilliant; I can > switch between English, German and Russian effortlessly. Not being able > to do so was one of the principal reasons for my ditching Windows; > Microsoft's support for multiple locales, the user interface of which > KDE probably cop^H^H^Hborrowed, is bug-ridden and such switching, > although theoretically possible, never worked properly for me. >
But surely the locale info you get when you type "locale" is independent of the window manager. I have the Turkish locale package installed, and localedrake sees it,it just won't make any changes. Is KDE interfering, I wonder? BTW, I can change things with "set", but they always return to the default when I log in again. Should I be doing this as an export line in bash_profile? Sir Robin -- "So I repeat myself? I am great, I contain tautologies." Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent �niversitesi Ankara Turkey http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
