Language problem with Firefox 3 beta

Jonas Norlander jonorland at gmail.com
Mon May 5 10:26:18 UTC 2008


2008/5/5 Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com>:
> 2008/5/4 Jonas Norlander <jonorland at gmail.com>:
>
> >>  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
>
>  Thanks, Jonas, but I have not problems with opening programs in
>  Hebrew. My problem is that cli applications, such as apt-get, are now
>  in Hebrew and the CLI does not support right-to-left languages such as
>  Hebrew. I will experiment more with the placement of the export
>  commands and see what works. Thanks.
>

What about running those CLI program with a LANG=C or LC_*=C prefix?
Or are i missing something?

/ Jonas




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