The 03.05.26 at 11:15, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
I thought SUSE already did make a multilingual ability via the user directorys initialization script; such that at user setup you could set their language preference.
True. But it is far from perfect: not all programs seems to respect it. For example, If I issue "LANG=es_ES man man" I get the Spanish man page for man, but not many man pages have been translated. Then, program may or may not have their internal strings translated: there is a library to do this on the fly, and SuSE has it. For example, in "/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES" there are many translation files, like, for example, "gimp.mo". Thus, if I call "LANG=es_ES gimp" I get Gimp in Spanish, instead of the default English. But again, not all programs are supported. Then, there are programs like "OpenOffice" that you can get in many languages: but I think the translations are embedded and can not be changed on the same system for different users - at least, I don't know how. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson