Setting LANGUAGE parameters

Karl karlok at fastmail.fm
Tue Sep 25 14:43:20 UTC 2007


Dotan Cohen wrote:
> Where does one store language parameters that programs (specifically
> wine) use? I have been putting "export LC_ALL=he_IL.UTF-8" in
> ~/.bashrc, but now I know that only Konsole uses this file. What file
> do other programs use? I do have the proper settings in Kcontrol, but
> wine does not use the KDE config files.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Dotan Cohen

I think what you are looking for is /etc/environment. This is what is in 
mine:

PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games"
LANG="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_DK.utf8"

Karl




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