Carlos E. R. wrote:
> 
> The Monday 2007-03-26 at 22:34 +0100, Rui Santos wrote:
> 
>> choose to use the English language instead. This is where my problem
>> lyes: I've set KDE Language to English and, all KDE based apps start
>> with the English Language. But, all other start with Portuguese. Just to
>> name a few:
>>              - Firefox
>>              - Thunderbird
>>              - YaST
>>              - etc..
>>      I've already added 'export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"' to both .profile and
>> .bashrc, but without any success. 
> 
> It should be only on the .profile file - read the comment:
> 
> # NOTE: It is recommended to make language settings in ~/.profile rather than
> # here, since multilingual X sessions would not work properly if LANG is over-
> # ridden in every subshell.
> 
> 
> 
>> Firefox doesn't even start in English
>> if I type 'export LANG="en_US.UTF-8" && firefox'.
> 
> It is:
> 
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 firefox

It doens't work either. only works with 'firefox -UILocale pt_PT.UTF-8'

> 
> without the && - provided the commandline is "firefox".
> 
> 
> My system has english as main language (en_US.UTF-8), but to see a program 
> in Spanish I use:
> 
> 
> LANG=es_ES.UTF-8 LC_ALL=es_ES.UTF-8 DICTIONARY=espanol  program

That is unusable for me... I want to see all programs in english.

> 
> 
> It is a nuisance that KDE doesn't use the same language method as the rest 
> of the programs...

Anyway... I partially solved the problem by adding:

export LANG="en_US.UTF-8" to $HOME/.profile

and by adding:

test "`whoami`" == "rsantos" && export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

at the end of '/etc/profile.d/lang.sh'

And keeping LANG="pt_PT.UTF-8" on YaST->Sysconfig Editor, all other
users get Portuguese only.

With this approach, almost all applications are loaded with English
language: Thunderbird, Firefox, OpenOffice, etc...
The only exception I found so far is YaST... But I can live with that...

Anyway, thanks for your help Carlos... It lead me on the right direction



One thing I cannot comprehend is: Is this the only way to set up o multi
language system with KDE ( don't know abou gnome )? I'm sure there
should be an easier way...

Rui Santos

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