Re: How to show the same program with two different language sets?

[Simos Xenitellis <simos74 gmx net>]

Roberto wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
>  I'm trying to give my contribution to some italian translations. I 
> need a way to start the same prog (the one I'm translating) both in 
> english and in italian so that I can better understand where some 
> terms appear and make a better translation.
>
> I tried starting a terminal, then exporting LANG variable to en_US 
> (tried en_GB too :-) and then starting 'yelp' (this is one of the 
> program, whose .po I'm translating) but Yelp still runs in italian (my 
> language default for the Gnome desktop I use).
>
> The same procedure works with some other software (gqView, Xmms, The 
> GIMP) and I can compare the appearance of every string both in english 
> and in italian. Are Gnome applications (like Yelp) getting their 
> language environment elsewehere?
>
> What am I doing wrong? Any hint?

What distro?
Some distros (namely Ubuntu Linux) set the LANGUAGE variable that takes 
precedence over LANG.
Therefore, change LANGUAGE between "it" and "en".

Simos Xenitellis


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