Re: how to change language

[Tomasz Kłoczko <kloczek rudy mif pg gda pl>]

On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, mek wrote:

> hi tomasz,
> 
> >> since the upgrade to gnome1.2 (helix) i don't have the option anymore
> >> to choose a language. i would like to use dutch as language, but i cant
> >> find anything,
> > 
> > Yes .. You have. Put on top your ~/.Xclients:
> > LC_ALL="de_DE"; export LC_ALL
> > 
> > After restart X session you'll have dutch language in all X applications
> > (not only in GNOME apps).
> 
> ehmm, no doesnt work!
> firstly that .Xclients file didnt exist, so i created it, filled in the line
> above and restarted X. but didnt change:(

X session scrip name depends on X init scripts suit. Look into
/etc/X11/xinit/Xinit script for findout X session script name (sometimes
it is ~/.Xsession).

> by the way "dutch" isnt "DE" but should be "NL" (netherland);-))

$ grep dutch /usr/share/locale/locale.alias
dutch		nl_NL.ISO-8859-1

Ups .. sorry ;-)
Above line with dutch alias is "deutsch         de_DE.ISO-8859-1" :-)

kloczek
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