On 03/08/09 17:46, Ed Greshko wrote: > Erik P. Olsen wrote: >> On 03/08/09 06:38, Ed Greshko wrote: >> >>> First of all, if you are running en_US in your environment then >>> disabling languages pack does absolutely nothing since en_US is the >>> default for firefox. If you are running, for example, th_TH (Thai) then >>> th.jar will be loaded and the menus of firefox will be in Thai. If you >>> disable the Thai language pack...then the jar file will not be loaded >>> and the menus will be in US English. >>> >> This doesn't seem to be correct. I have two language packs enabled, Danish >> and UK English. If I disable English and enable Danish, nothing is changed. >> If I disable both language packs same story, ff always comes up in English. >> But if I remove all language packs as suggested ff wont start at all. >> > I believe you are missing one important step..... > > In order to have Danish menus, and for the language packs to have any > effect, you need to log out and log back in the Danish environment. > Meaning your environment variable LANG needs to be set to da_DK.UTF-8. > > I get the feeling that yours is always set to en_GB.UTF-8. You are absolutely right. Thanks for correcting me. I've learned a little bit more of linux :-) >> In fact I don't really know what a language pack is supposed to do. >> >>> So, in summary, the language pack only take up 17MB of disk >>> space....never get loaded into memory (and only one gets loaded) unless >>> you are running in a non en_US environment. >>> >>> The ability to disable a given language pack is so that a user could, if >>> they wanted, to display the menus in English. FWIW, I could see this >>> being useful in my house. I could temporarily disable Chinese to make >>> changes to my wife's preferences without having to ask her ... What does >>> this say? :-) >>> >> Interesting! As I mentioned above I can't do that (I assume Danish and >> Chinese behave similarly in this respect). >> > Indeed they do.... I just did it with Danish. > > As I said, make you you logout/login and you change you language setting > at the login screen.... > > > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
