Dnia wtorek, 27 marca 2012 09:15:48 Chusslove Illich pisze: > > [: pennguin :] > > I run the app with LANG variable set to C (LANG=C kwrite). But is this > > proper method for quick language change? > > It is not. The input-output encoding of C locale is plain ASCII, so any non- > ASCII encodings are going to cause garbage. Hence the problem with file > names that you see (they are probably stored as UTF-8 in the file system). > > The correct way to change a language through environment variable for an > ordinary Gettext-based program is through LANGUAGE. This takes only the > language code, not the full locale name. E.g. LANGUAGE=en_US. > > KDE programs however respect LANGUAGE only if the language has not been set > through System Settings. If it was, then one has to use KDE_LANG variable > instead. Thanks for pointing this out, I didn't know about it. Works flawlessly :) ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.