[oclug] Languages

Kirrily Robert skud at e-smith.com
Thu Feb 22 16:38:32 EST 2001


On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 10:47:57AM -0500, Mike wrote:
> Hey All!
> 
> Quick question, does anyone know if or how to switch languages.(spoken )
> Or do I need to recomiple?  What I mean is If I want my box to be in Korean
> can I just change some simple settings?

You can probably do it via environment variables.  Look at LANG,
LANGUAGE and LOCALE.  I'm not quite sure which does what, I'm afraid :(

You'll probably find that many apps are woefully lacking in
internationalisation support... be sure to send translations to the
maintainers if you can :)

K.

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