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.
$ locale LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_ALL=
Even when I switch to english locale:
$ export LANG=C; locale LANG=C LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE="C" LC_NUMERIC="C" LC_TIME="C" LC_COLLATE="C" LC_MONETARY="C" LC_MESSAGES="C" LC_PAPER="C" LC_NAME="C" LC_ADDRESS="C" LC_TELEPHONE="C" LC_MEASUREMENT="C" LC_IDENTIFICATION="C" LC_ALL=
$ kwrite
...still has german GUI unfortunately.
Thanks, Stefan