man linphone in russian

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Fri Dec 30 10:40:19 UTC 2016


On 30 December 2016 at 10:23, Thufir Hawat <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:
> For some reason my manual page for linphone and linphonec are not in
> English...very odd.  Perhaps Russian or Finnish.  The man page for man says:
>
>        International support is available with this package.  Native
> language manual pages are accessible (if available  on  your
>        system)  via  use  of  locale  functions.   To activate such support,
> it is necessary to set either $LC_MESSAGES, $LANG or
>        another system dependent environment variable to your language
> locale, usually specified in the POSIX 1003.1 based format:
>
>        <language>[_<territory>[.<character-set>[,<version>]]]
>
>
>
> First, I doubt that I've ever enabled non-english.  Secondly, not sure how
> to check.  Perhaps an oddity with linphone?  I've read their man page
> before, and it was in English..

What do
echo $LC_MESSAGES
and
echo $LANG
show?

Colin




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