Help! i18n and KDE2.2 problem on Mandrak8.2

[Zenith Lau]

Hello nick!

Right, I am not sure at all, but it may be the case for you. For KDE2.2 (I don't know any stuff on KDE3), language setting is indenpent. KDE store its own setting in kdeglobal (~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobal). You can set it using the KDE control center.

Cheers.
Jacky Lau (Zenith)

On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 20:28:30 -0400
nick <trykde at rogers.com> wrote:

> The problem:
>       KDE doesn't respect locale setting (LANG, LANGUAGE, LC_ALL...)
> Description:
>    1. I installed  Mandrake 8.2 using its CD1 and CD2. During its 
> installation, I chose Simplified Chinese (zh_CN.GB2312) as installation 
> language, and also chose other languages (includeing en_US) to be 
> available after installation.
>    2. After installation, as expected, KDE uses Chinese fonts for 
> display. Then I decided to switch back to English fonts without much 
> success: I changed /etc/sysconfig/i18n to use en_US, and I don't have 
> local .18n; I also changed /etc/menu-methods/lang.h to make lang() and 
> languages() return en_US only. Now, running "locale" shows the following:
> 
> LANG=en_US
> LC_CTYPE="en_US"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
> LC_TIME="en_US"
> LC_COLLATE="en_US"
> LC_MONETARY="en_US"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US"
> LC_PAPER="en_US"
> LC_NAME="en_US"
> LC_ADDRESS="en_US"
> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US"
> LC_ALL=
> 
> Linux virtual console seems to respect this settting. But still, when I 
> fire up startx, KDE is using Chinese fonts again! What am I missing here?
> Any help/suggestion is greatly appreciated!
> 
> -nick
> 
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