Localization

igadoter · 09-09-2010, 04:53 AM

Hi,
I never before was interested to localize my computer - English was quite enough for me - but now it seems I have to set up my Slackware to work with my native language. First of all I want have both English and Polish on my computer. I don't really know how to localize Slackware. It was always a mystery for me. How it should be done on Slackware?

brianL · 09-09-2010, 07:24 AM

The only thing to do that I know about is editing /etc/profile.d/lang.sh. For example, I changed mine fom the default US to:

Code:

export LANG=en_GB.UTF8

koloth · 09-09-2010, 07:58 AM

Are you talking about full localization? If you are using KDE i'm positive there is a polish package in KDEI.

jovanoti · 09-09-2010, 08:24 AM

You can do per user localization. Exporting locale in lang.sh is global for the system. To enable given locale per user just edin user's ~/.bashrc file and add i.e.

Code:

export LANG=en_GB.UTF8

. DE should detect the locale and switch to proper language if it is installed.

igadoter · 09-09-2010, 10:15 AM

Thank to you all. I know that KDE has well language support and there is a Polish package for KDE. But it is not only about KDE. KDE is one of the possible choices. But nevertheless there should a script or hint for user in the time of an installation. Localization can be made during an installation or as post-installation task. It is one of the greatest weaknes of Slackware - poor support for internationalization. What do I mean? Say an installer in user's native language - Polish, German and so on. Maybe sometime in the future....