In XFCE, I went to /usr/share/applications directory and edit ufoai.desktop as root.
Change the line "Exec=ufo" to "Exec=/usr/bin/ufo +set fs_i18ndir /usr/share/ufoai/base/i18n/"
Then restart from your menu and set your language. You are good to go.
Thought this might be helpful, sometimes ingame settings are easy to overlook.
]]>/usr/bin/ufo +set fs_i18ndir /usr/share/ufoai/base/i18n/
or, if you want the game to start in a new X session:
xinit /usr/bin/ufo +set fs_i18ndir /usr/share/ufoai/base/i18n/ -- :1
set fs_i18ndir /usr/share/ufoai/base/i18n/
I have a problem with the new release of UFO: AI (version 2.4). ufoai-data might be missing language files. I don't have (nearly) any text in UFO: AI, no story introduction (besides "introduction_sentence_1"), no Ufopedia entry (it says something like "grenade_launcher_txt") and no mail text (only says "mail_txt"). An ufo: ai dev thinks, that the packager might have forgot to build the language files.
Could someone confirm, that there is a problem and that it is the missing language files? Thanks.
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