[Kde-kiosk] Re: Locale locked by Kiosk Tool?

[Erik Forsberg]

Martijn Klingens <klingens at kde.org> writes:


> Although I'm a native Dutch speaker I use the C locale exclusively
> as do most IT professionals in Holland, 

Heh, I'm a native Swedish speaker, and I too use the C locale
exclusively. The error messages are always more confusing in swedish,
and you can't google on them with the same success :-).

My users however, that's another story..

> so I don't know, but does
> $LANG follow the same naming convention as the KDE language setting?

Not really. The KDE syntax is:

[Locale]
Country=sv
Language=sv:SE

LANG is normally set to "sv_SE" or "sv_SE.iso8859-1" or something
similar. 

> If so, you can just set 
> 
> [Locale]
> Language[$e]=$LANG
> 
> You can even lock it for your users with
> 
> Language[$ei]=$LANG

Very good idea! Although it's perhaps not the most elegant solution, I
can definitely set some other environment variable to a KDE-parsable
value, which will solve this problem.

Thanks!

\EF
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