I want my apps to be in english...

Choey · 06-23-2004, 01:33 AM

i've been trying to be able to type korean with ami (in which i was successful), but in the duration of my endevaor i've somehow caused some applications to display korean menus, etc. i'm using kde 3.2.

i remember doing something for $LANG and echo $LANG shows
ko_KR.UTF-8
and i know i changed it somehow. is that why some of my apps have korean menus and stuff?
if so, how can i change it back to english?

thanks.

Choey · 06-23-2004, 11:18 AM

bump...

Demonbane · 06-23-2004, 11:24 AM

try changing the "Country, Region & Language" settings in kde control center

Choey · 06-23-2004, 11:34 AM

i checked it but there was only english language there.

Demonbane · 06-23-2004, 11:40 AM

try setting locale environment variables(including $LANG) to English (en_US), leaving only LC_CTYPE on ko_KR.UTF-8
put them in ~/.bash_profile or ~/.profile, depends on how you start X and how your distro is set up.

Choey · 06-23-2004, 11:53 AM

yeah that's what i was thinking but i forgot how i set the $LANG to be in korean...
and i don't have any of the profile files.
even my vi is in korean. i can read korean fine but i'm just not used to seeing it in applications and stuff.

i think i did something like export $LANG something...
is it export $LANG=en_US?

EDIT:

i guess not.
bash-2.05b$ export $LANG=en_US
bash: export: `ko_KR.UTF-8=en_US': not a valid identifier

Demonbane · 06-23-2004, 11:58 AM

export LANG=en_US

Choey · 06-23-2004, 12:07 PM

thanks. but i still have the problem.
i'm pretty sure it's the $LANG varialbe because if i su to root, the variable echos en_US.UTF-8 and vi is in english.
i tried export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 as nonroot and it echos en_US.UTF-8, but if i kill x, it'll turn back to ko_KR.UTF-8.
what's wrong?

Demonbane · 06-23-2004, 12:10 PM

where did you set it?

Choey · 06-23-2004, 12:15 PM

what do you mean where?
as a nonroot user i just typed export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 in konsole
temporarily the variable is changed but when i kill x it's reset.

Demonbane · 06-23-2004, 12:20 PM

try putting it in ~/.bash_profile
logoff and log back in

Choey · 06-23-2004, 12:34 PM

there was no such file in my home directory but i made the file and inserted [export LANG=en_US.UTF-8] without brackets.
that didn't work so i searched for another .bash_profile which was located in /etc/skel. i edited it and this is the file:

Code:

# .bash_profile

# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
        . ~/.bashrc
fi

# User specific environment and startup programs

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export PATH
export LANG
unset USERNAMEN

i just ladded LANG=... and export LANG. it still didn't work. after i kill x the variable stays the same but after i start x, it turns back to normal.

now i kinda remember editing a file that had just a list of items, and i added about 4 or 5 items at the end of it. some site in chinese told me to do it. forgot which...

EDIT:

i found it now. the file i edited before was /etc/sysconfig/i18n, which reads

Code:

LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en
LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
SYSFONT=lat0-16
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ALL=ko
ENC=kr
XIM=Ami
XMODIFIERS="@im=Ami

i think that's for ami though...

Demonbane · 06-23-2004, 12:40 PM

try comment out LC_ALL=ko, and change just LC_CTYPE to ko_KR

Choey · 06-23-2004, 01:08 PM

it's still not working... any other ideas?

Demonbane · 06-23-2004, 01:21 PM

how do you launch your X session? startx or DM?
so the X apps are ok now, the problem is that whenever you drop back to the console after ending an X session the variables gets set back to ko_KR?