https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=379356 User mfabian@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=379356#c5 Mike Fabian <mfabian@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|mfabian@novell.com | --- Comment #5 from Mike Fabian <mfabian@novell.com> 2008-04-17 11:07:21 MST --- I am not sure whether I understand your comment. You want to set LC_ALL=ja ? Don’t do that, it is even an invalid locale: mfabian@magellan:~$ LC_ALL=ja locale charmap locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory ANSI_X3.4-1968 mfabian@magellan:~$ And setting LC_ALL would be also quite evil because it would override *all* user settings for LANG, LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, ... You shouldn’t set LANGUAGE either, at least not if there is only single language, then there is no point in setting LANGUAGE at all. Setting LANGUAGE is only meaningful if you want to set it to a list of *more than one* locales to specify a fallback list for the messages. As one can set such a fallback list in the KDE control centre (“systemsettings”) it may be useful if more than one language is listed there. But if only one language is listed there, it makes no sense at all. I am not sure whether KDE should set any of the variables LANGUAGE, LC_ALL, LANG, LC_* at all. Maybe KDE should leave them alone. But then Gnome applications started from a KDE sessions of course will not observe changes of language in the KDE control centre. Would that be a problem? If you really think you need to set environment variable(s) to propagate the language setting from the KDE control centre to other (non-KDE) applications started from KDE (e.g. Gnome applications), I think it is enough to set only LANG and leave all other variables alone. And maybe set LANGUAGE to a priority list if and only if there is more than one language selected in the KDE control centre at the same time. Don’t set it if there is only one language, set only LANG then. None of the other variables is set by default on openSUSE anyway, i.e. if any of the other variables has been set it has been done manually by the user and one should avoid to override this. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.