Language problem with Firefox 3 beta

Jonas Norlander jonorland at gmail.com
Sun May 4 11:44:59 UTC 2008


2008/5/3 Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com>:
> 2008/4/30 Jonas Norlander <jonorland at gmail.com>:
>
> > For changing locale for the whole system the settings are in
>  > /etc/default/locale.
>  > Changing for a user add it to ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc for login shells
>  > and ~/.bashrc
>  > only for non-login shells. Bash will also read ~/.bash_login and ~/.bash_profile
>  > if the exist. I'm not sure what what files KDM will read at login perhaps some
>  > else know?
>
>  Thanks. I'm not sure where I need to put it. I put the export command
>  in bashrc, but now Firefox is _still_ English, yet CLI programs are in
>  Hebrew. That is quite the opposite from what I'd like, as the CLI does
>  not work well with RTL languages.
>
>
>  Dotan Cohen

You can start programs in a console like this LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
/usr/bin/myprogram. Don't looks like it works for KDE programs but
they have a choice in the help menu where the language can be changed.

/ Jonas




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