On 26/06/2020 13.17, Axel Braun wrote:
Hello Carlos,
Am Freitag, 26. Juni 2020, 11:00:09 CEST schrieb Carlos E. R.:
Then, as a hack, I suggest creating .i18n file on home with this content:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 DICTIONARY=english KDE_LANG=en_US.UTF-8
I'm not sure it will work, but it might. It would be interesting to know.
I have extended the existing .i18n file as follows:
LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MONETARY=en_US.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=en_US.utf8 LC_PAPER=en_US.utf8 LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.utf8 LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.utf8 LC_NAME=en_US.utf8
Unfortunately, it did not work. Applications still show up in german. :-(
Maybe you need LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8:de <== LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 DICTIONARY=english KDE_LANG=en_US.UTF-8 I forgot. After login again to plasma, you have to check in konsole that those variables are actually set. If they are not set, it means that KDE does not support the .i18n file ("internationalization" has 18 leters, thus that acronym), and you have to find another file where you can put those variables. .profile perhaps? :-?
I feel this is worth a bug report - it should be possible to set-up a user completely in a different language thant the system language. And this should be possible for an average user as well.
Yes, I agree. I know it works in the CLI, and it works in XFCE by setting that file. I think it also works in Gnome. The .i18n file is relatively new, but prior to it you could set the variables somewhere else and they worked. But KDE "is different™". There could be a YaST tool for all this. Also setting up the keyboard, installing language files, etc. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)