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steffinger

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From: Munich/Beijing

Registered: 2011-02-07

Posts: 41

[Solved]Changing LC_MESSAGES changes the Language of my DE

Hi,

I recently changed my hardware and everything went fine up to fixing my locale settings

My normal setup is a de_DE.utf8 for everything but LC_CTYPE and LC_MESSAGES. I want my terminal speaking english with me.

here ist what I did: I generated two locales: en_US.utf8 and de_DE.utf8.

then I set LANG=de_DE.utf8 in  /etc/locale.conf

and then i changed my ~/config/locale.conf like mentioned before.

And now the language of my gnome or xfce sessions changed. There is no indication for a change in gnome-settings. There it says "German"

Changing LC_CTYPE or other settings doesn't affect the DE's. Only LC_MESSAGES does.

I'm fiddeling around with this for some days now and really don't know what i'm missing. There are no errors in the logs.
Thanks for any help.

Last edited by steffinger (2014-05-01 11:39:36)

Rexilion

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Registered: 2013-12-23

Posts: 784

Re: [Solved]Changing LC_MESSAGES changes the Language of my DE

Why not make your terminal start with

env LC_MESSAGE <terminal>

?

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steffinger

Member

From: Munich/Beijing

Registered: 2011-02-07

Posts: 41

Re: [Solved]Changing LC_MESSAGES changes the Language of my DE

Thanks a lot for your tip. I'm still a bit disappointed, that the regular workflow is broken and I probably should file a bug report. But your fix is pretty neat. I didn't think about it.