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

[ZeeGeek <zeegeek gmail com>]

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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