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

[Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk>]

On Friday 04 November 2005 13:53, Jonathon Jongsma 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?

Setting LC_ALL should work if you are choosing the correct locale, but have 
you tried instead setting the LANGUAGE (not LANG) environmental variable - 
see the documentation for GNU gettext?  LANGUAGE has the highest priority 
(LANG the least, after LC_ALL).

Chris