Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 86494
The lauguage of KDE's user interface wrongly determined by LC_CTYPE
Last modified: 2008-09-17 07:12:55 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030206 Description of problem: I want to set up an account with 1).an English user interface, 2).the ability to type in Chinese whenever I want to. In GNOME 2.x, I simply set these in ~/.i18: export LANGUAGE=en_US export LC_CTYPE=zh_CN These two lines guarantee 1) and 2) respectively. However, I can't achieve this goal in KDE. As we know, the user interface of KDE should be determined by the variables "Country" and "Language" in the "Locale" section of the file ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals. I find that if I set LC_CTYPE to zh_CN, the user interface will definitely turn to Chinese, even if "Country" and "Language" have been set to en_US in ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): KDE-3.1-7 Red Hat How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Use kcontrol to set "Country" to USA and "Language" to English. (Alternatively, you can edit ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals manually.) 2.Create ~/.i18n, add the following line export LC_CTYPE=zh_CN 3.Login into KDE 4.Modify ~/.i18n to this: export LC_CTYPE=en_US 5.Login into KDE again. Actual Results: in step 3, the user interface is Chinese. in step 5, the user interface is English. Expected Results: In both step 3 and 5, the user interface is English. Additional info: My classmate uses gentoo. He has verified the KDE 3.1 of gentoo does not have this problem.
The following URL is an article about how to achieve this goal in Mandrake 9.0: http://www.math.wisc.edu/~stefanss/japanese/ This confirms that what I've observed for redhat 8.1beta3 is a BUG!
*** Bug 87754 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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