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Hi,

My system is running KDE3.5.5 on Debian SID.

The desktop is german, but in order to give proper hints in web forums I'd like to start applications with english localization.

And I am pretty sure that it was once possible to open konsole, set the LANG variable to e.g. en_GB and henceforth every application started from that shell were in english. (It's also in the FAQ!)

But when I try it now on my system, LANG and LC_MESSAGES variables are apparently just ignored, no matter what I set them to...

I don't know much about KDE internals but my guess is that they attach to some already running KDE service (dcopserver, kded, ksmserver,... ?) and inherit its shell environment.

What can I do?

I created another account and su'ed to him (which works), and I guess restarting KDE with changed language settings should also work, but I'd really prefer to just use LANG as it is possible with any other program.

Thanks

fabian

( PS: I asked that at linuxquestions, but nobody cared :'-( )

Wow, thank you very much! That worked!

So KDE really doesn't care about LANG...

However, en_GB was just an example. I intended to set it to C and just assumed my KDE installation would be using english as its standard language. Well, I was apparently wrong, C didn't work. I installed the appropriate package as you suggested and now it works.

cheers