Falkon 24.08.1: How do I change the language in the GUI of Falkon?

[Juraj Oravec]

> Hi Juraj,

Hello Jens,

> In the latest Falkon version 24.08.1, which I compiled from its source
> code, I am not anymore able to switch the current GUI language set to
> German (i.e. buttons, menus a.s.o are all in German) back to English.
> 
> At least not within the GUI of Falkon. I also checked that Falkon
> *.ini file in my $HOME directory, but I could not detect in it any
> switch which should change the GUI language back to English.
> 
> But as far I can remember, the first GUI language directly after I had
> compiled Falkon in version 24.08.1 was English.
> 
> What I did after that was that I converted two Hunspell dictionaries
> for German and English into that *.bdic format and put the generated
> *.bdic files into a certain subdirectory below the Falkon program
> directory - with the result that in Falkon, Edit menu > Preferences >
> Spell Checking (or something like that) both German and English are
> shown as activated for spell checking. And spell checking works for
> both English and German, I checked that on the Internet.
> 
> Do you know how to change the GUI language in Falkon from German back
> to English or any other language? Or is this a feature which is
> currently missing in Falkon?

Falkon follows system settings to set the GUI language (actualy, this 
should be done by Qt). The translations are due to KDE policy already 
present in the repository, so by compiling and installing it properly 
you should have all translations available.

I can start Falkon (compiled from source) in German by setting 
environment variable LANG to "de_DE.UTF-8" or for English "en_US.UTF-8"

> export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
> export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

And than I run Falkon from the same terminal, works fine. If you have 
another instance of falkon running remember to use "-r" option to start 
a new instance.

> falkon -r -p testing_profile


In case you need to also change the locale (date and number formats) 
consult some wiki page of your distribution (I often go to Archwiki for 
general info).


> Best regards,
> 
> Jens

Best regards,
Juraj
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