Re: Language switcher applet

[Simos Xenitellis <simos74 gmx net>]

Yavor Doganov wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:46:50 -0400, Germán Poó Caamaño wrote:
>
>  
>
> > In previous versions of GNOME it was possible to run a application
> > (o create a launcher) as "LANG=es_US fo".  However it was disabled
> > around 2.2 o 2.0 (I guess to avoid any security issue as LD_PRELOAD
> > or so).
> >    
>
> LANGUAGE=es foo
> Provided that you have the locale generated and the .mo files in place.
>  
This change from LANG to LANGUAGE (actually LANGUAGE takes precedence 
over LANG)
cost me some evenings trying to figure out what's going on.
Is this a GNOME feature or a distro issue?
First found this new behaviour happening with Ubuntu Linux (Warty).

Simos
Greek Team
http://www.gnome.gr/