Matthias Fechner wrote: > Hi Anssi, > > Anssi Hannula wrote: >> What is the output of "locale"? > > it says: > LANG= > LC_CTYPE="POSIX" > LC_NUMERIC="POSIX" > LC_TIME="POSIX" > LC_COLLATE="POSIX" > LC_MONETARY="POSIX" > LC_MESSAGES="POSIX" > LC_PAPER="POSIX" > LC_NAME="POSIX" > LC_ADDRESS="POSIX" > LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX" > LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX" > LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX" > LC_ALL= Hmm, what about: LC_ALL=en_US LANGUAGE=de_DE ls --help Which language is the message displayed in? > I checked the manpage of locale and it says that I can set the following > variables: > LANG > LC_ALL > LC_CTYPE > LC_MESSAGES > NLSPATH > > I checked then the homepage of gettext and it says: > "Then, users only have to set the LANG environment variable to the > appropriate `ll_CC' combination prior to using the programs in the > package. See Matrix. For example, let's presume a German site. At the > shell prompt, users merely have to execute `setenv LANG de_DE' (in csh) > or `export LANG; LANG=de_DE' (in sh). They could even do this from their > .login or .profile file." > > see here: > http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#End-Users LANGUAGE variable is described as the method to use by software wishing to provide an option to change language: http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#gettext-grok > I checked also the version of gettext and it seems that the current > version of gettext is 0.16 which I have installed. > Are you using an older version of gettext? Nope, latest is in use. -- Anssi Hannula _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
