Thanks Miroslaw, I did as you said and it works well. Blogged about it here. http://goinggnu.wordpress.com/2014/08/16/how-to-change-the-user-interface-of-kde-in-tamil/ 2014-08-16 17:02 GMT+05:30 Mirosław Zalewski <miniopl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > As Kevin said, you must "translate" PO files into (binary) MO files. > msgfmt utility (from gettext package) might be used to do that: > > $ msgfmt -o file.mo file.po > > Then, MO files should be put into > /usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/ > directory. > > Additionally, you need > /usr/share/locale/ta/entry.desktop > file. Without it, you won't be able to pick up Tamil from list of > existing languages. Simplified file content is below: > > [KCM Locale] > Name=Tamil > Name[ta]=Tamil in Tamil > > > On my system, localization files are owned by user root, group root, and > have 644 permissions. > > Hope that helps > -- > Best regards > Mirosław Zalewski -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge ___________________________________________________ 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.