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

[Roberto <robicd gmx net>]

Simos Xenitellis ha scritto:

> 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?

Fedora Core 3.

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

This is not the case. There is no LANGUAGE variable. The only one used 
is LANG.

Anyway, when I export LANG=en_US programs like XMMS, gqView, 
MidnightCommander and many others _do_change language to english.
The problem regards only programs like Yelp or Nautilus.

   Roberto