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

[nick]

Thanks for your help, Lau. Yes, it indeed solved most of my problems 
with KDE. But there are still two remaining:
1) The desktop (background) still use a Chinese font for the texts under 
icons.
2) Mozilla 0.98 (from Mandrake8.2 RPM) seems to use a "system font" for 
menu item, which looks absurdly small. It's not the menu font used by 
KDE programs (e.g. Konsole). It might be a XFree86 or GTK thing. Is 
there any way to config it?

Thanks again,
-nick

Zenith Lau wrote:
> 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=

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