On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Michael Golden wrote: > I was thinking it'd be fun to try switching my linux box to different > languages just to see what things are called but I can't quite figure > out how. I want to be able to choose a language, have it install any > necessary packages to localize things, and then do the configuration for > terminal and X, etc. all for me. I don't know how it is in most OS's but > I tried it in BeOS yesterday and it was a simple choice in the menu. I'm > running Mandrake and browsed through the configuration stuff and found > LocaleDrake but it only offers to switch me between English, English > (American), English (Ireland), Swati, and Venda. (Any idea what those > last two even are?) So, any ideas?
There's a handy little environment variable called LANG. LANG="en_US.UTF-8" You can put it in .bashrc, or redhat distros like it in .i18n. Multiple language support is called internationalization, or i18n. A single language is differently an enumeration of type locale. The locale table, based on ISO 639-1, syntactically consists of <language>_<COUNTRY>. http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/ http://www.openi18n.org/docs/pdf/OpenI18N1.3.pdf You may need to install an internationalization package on your system and need gettext. Justin ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
