On Wed, 12 Sep 2018 02:17:26 +0200
Stefan Krusche <linux@...> wrote:

> Hi Nick,
> 
> Am Mittwoch, 12. September 2018 schrieb Nick Koretsky:
> > > > I was thinking if you start app with the language variable set, it
> > > > would work, but I just tested and it does not  
> > >
> > > Ok, didn't think of that one. Maybe it's possible to work that out.  
> >
> > "LANG=x your_app" will start a program with a different language
> > settings. But beware of LANG interaction with LC_ - LC_ overrides LANG.
> > Use LC_ALL instead of LANG if you want to be 100% sure, but this can be
> > undesirable... For example if you want to start application with english
> > GUI, but have german sorting and dates, use "LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> > LC_COLLATE=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8 your_app"  
> 
> As promising as that looked it didn't work when I start kwrite in konsole.
> 
>   $ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 kwrite
> 
> starts kwrite with german GUI.
> 


It seems that tde programs ignore locale settings. It works with anything
that is not from trinity.


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  Nick Koretsky (nick.koretsky@...)