On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Jamie Larsen wrote:
> After I changed the LANG setting in i18n, and restarted it ("source
> ./i18n), my desktop changed into Chinese. So I Iogged off and re-logged
> in (& selecting English as default). Thereafter, the setting in i18n
> seemed to lose any effect.
If you selected English in gdm login screen, you will override any
language set in /etc/sysconfig/i18n.
Order of where to get language settings first:
1. gdm
2. ~/.i18n
3. /etc/sysconfig/i18n
Hope it helps,
Leon
>
> Jens Petersen wrote:
>
> > Jamie Larsen wrote:
> >
> >> I changed the LANG setting in /etc/sysconfig/i18n to
> >>
> >> LANG=zh_TW.Big5 (or zh_TW.UTF-8) from the default LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> >>
> >> An "echo $LANG" shows that the LANG setting has been changed to the
> >> new value. However, this change is effective only in that session.
> >> When I start a new shell, the LANG setting goes back to the default
> >> value. Is there any script in FC3 that overwrites i18n settings?
> >
> >
> > How about after rebooting say?
> >
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