<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Nov 5, 2009, at 10:16 PM, <a href="mailto:LLLActive@GMail.com">LLLActive@GMail.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>On Nov 5, 2009, at 8:42 PM, Aart Koelewijn wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:57:29 +0100, <a href="mailto:LLLActive@GMail.com">LLLActive@GMail.com</a> wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Hi all,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I am supporting a user that uses a German default language <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">installation<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">of 9.04 over ssh connections. On this German default language system,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">the man pages are shown in English; but that is OK. I am trying to<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">generate a *.deb package with alien (sudo alien -c<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Epson-ALC1100-filter-1.2-0.i386.rpm). The reporting language for the<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">errors comes in German at the end for "dpkg-shlibdeps:".<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">TIA<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">:-)<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Al<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">In my environment I have set LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8. This gets me near to what you want. Only all <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">menu's in<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">all appliances are in english too. You may not wat that, but I have no<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">idea how that can be changed.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Aart<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br>Hi Aart,<br><br>do you mean that the applications in the cli terminal session also <br>become English? That is ok - as long as the gnome gui does not change.<br><br>Could there be a way to create a user with other language settings, in <br>this case an English user in gnome gui that is mainly another default <br>setting? In that way the cli will also then be in English. I will <br>install 9.10 in VirtualBox and try that out. Anyone tried that before?<br><br><br>:-)<br>Al<br></div></blockquote><a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br></div></blockquote><br></div><div><div>Well, in my new 9.10 VB installation (no problems so far - contra the other posts "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; ">Re: 9.10 is a black eye for Ubuntu"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; ">), I do not see a way to give a user another language default in the gnome gui. Would have been neat though!</span></span></div><div><br></div><div>So I am still looking for a way to get English error reports from apps in the cli, that could also be set in the environment of a different user when logged in from the terminal session cli wirh su <user> -. I know where to set such things as the prompt for openSUSE (.profile), but not yet for Ubuntu/Deb. In openSUSE 11.2 in the user's home directory (in the .profiles file), I have:</div><div><br></div><div><div># Most applications support several languages for their output.</div><div># To make use of this feature, simply uncomment one of the lines below or</div><div># add your own one (see /usr/share/locale/locale.alias for more codes)</div><div># This overwrites the system default set in /etc/sysconfig/language</div><div># in the variable RC_LANG.</div><div>#</div><div>#export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 # uncomment this line for German output</div><div>#export LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 # uncomment this line for French output</div><div>#export LANG=es_ES.UTF-8 # uncomment this line for Spanish output</div><div><br></div><div>I can't get to the German user now, but I tried it on my VB installation. It is an English US installation, where I uncommeted the de.DE.UTF-8, but it did not work on Ubuntu 9.10 in the user's .profile file.</div><div><br></div></div><div>Any ideas welcome.</div><div><br></div><div>:-)</div><div>Al</div><div><br></div></div><br></body></html>