Setting locale for individual programs

[Lea Gris]

Dotan Cohen a écrit :
> I send this message to both the Ubuntu and Kubuntu lists as I'm not
> sure which is more appropriate. I've Ubuntu installed, and added KDE,
> which I use instead of Gnome.
> 
> My locale is Hebrew, and I need all my GUI apps to be in Hebrew,
> naturally. However, my command-line and development apps I need to be
> in English, as the Hebrew support is very poor. The specific apps that
> I want in English would be:

Language is determined by the environment variable LANG.
So set LANG=isocode before launching a program.

For shell environment you should have a bashrc with
export LANG=C
or
export LANG=en

> Kdevelop
> Eclipse

Either go to properties in the specific menu entry or icons for this
program and export LANG=whaterver
or
Create run scripts for these applications.

> make (when building from source in Konsole)
> 
> How do I configure these individual apps to use English as the default
> language? More generally, how do I configure the system to tell
> individual programs which locale to use? Some googling on the subject
> makes me believe that ~/.profile is the fiel that does this, but I
> have found no examples of targeting specific programs, and I don't
> even ave the file to begin with! Does Ubuntu (Kubunut, Debian) use
> this file? If not, then what replaces it?

Best regards,

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Léa Gris