Nick Koretsky wrote: > "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" FYI LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8 kwrite did not show the menu in kwrite in english or german. regards