Re: running a program with a different language than the current locale

[ZeeGeek <zeegeek gmail com>]

try using 'locale -a' to see what locales are available. Then use the
one for LANG.

On 11/5/05, Jonathon Jongsma <jonathon jongsma gmail com> wrote:
> Well, I tried using pt, pt_BR, and pt_BR.UTF-8, and none of them show
> the translated interface.  When I just set pt or pt_BR, I get a whole
> bunch of commandline gtk warnings about invalid locales names, but not
> with pt_BR.UTF-8, but even so, the translation doesn't get used.
>
> On 11/4/05, ZeeGeek <zeegeek gmail com> wrote:
> > it should work, are you sure the locale is pt_BR.UTF-8?
> >
> > On 11/4/05, Jonathon Jongsma <jonathon jongsma gmail com> wrote:
> > > On 11/3/05, ZeeGeek <zeegeek gmail com> wrote:
> > > > may be you can open a terminal and set the variable LANG to portugese
> > > > and then launch your program in that terminal.
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I've tried that, but it doesn't seem to work for me.  I've tried the following:
> > > LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8 appname
> > > and
> > > LC_ALL=pt_BR.UTF-8 appname
> > > as well as both of these combined.  It doesn't seem to work unless i
> > > log out and log in with a portugese GNOME session.  Maybe it's not
> > > possible to run a program in a different locale from the rest of the
> > > desktop?
> > > Jonathon
> > >
> >
> >
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> >
>


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