Locale personalization

[seadog at sealabs.net]

Martin Pitt wrote:

>Hi!
>
>seadog at sealabs.net [2004-10-15 21:36 +0300]:
>  
>
>>Hello, 
>>   I am using warty rc1 and I want to change LC_MESSAGES to POSIX from 
>>el_GR because I am used to english menus. I don't want to change LC_LANG 
>>because greek won't opperate well. Please reply with the right way to do 
>>that (if any), not just a hack, so that no problems arise later.
>>    
>>
>
>Please run
>
>  sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
>
>and generate both a greek and an English (en_US or en_GB) locale,
>choose the English one as default. Now you can edit /etc/environment
>manually and enter whatever combination of LANG/LC_MESSAGES/whatever
>you prefer.
>
>Martin
>
>  
>
Since I want to change only LC_MESSAGES, I kept greek as my default 
language and added the following line in /etc/enviroment
LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8
GDM and Gnome completetly ignores this change, although I select "system 
default language" on gdm login. I get greek menus on gnome's application 
list and on application menus.

If I change LC_MESSAGES=POSIX, gdm insists on ignoring this but nautilus 
gives me POSIX menus on applications but _not_ on gnome's application 
list menu! The same goes for openoffice.org which insists on greek menus!

I even tried setting en_GB as my default language, without changing 
anything on /etc/enviroment and after a clean reboot, the menus were in 
greek!

Did I something wrong, or this is a bug?

thnx in advance.
g.l.