multiple $LANGUAGE locale set in terminal

jheengut · 05-20-2022, 04:57 AM

Hi,

My default desktop has some languages set. In turn, in the environment variable LANGUAGE has been defined as

Code:

 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en_US:hi:fr

When I run some programs such as su, the prompt then becomes

Code:

su

शब्दकूट:

or

Code:

 su 
 Mot de passe :

but never defaults to English
unless

Code:

LANGUAGE=en_GB

Is there a another way other than remove the other languages, to default to English ?

slac · 05-20-2022, 05:24 AM

You can try to set LANG and LC_ALL. Be sure to export the values of such environment variables, how to do so will depend in which shell you use, but if you use bash which is default in slackware, you can modify /etc/profile and set them there:

Code:

# /etc/profile
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Once you have that file modified you could re-login or just source the file:

Code:

source /etc/profile

You can set those variables at your personal ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile or even ~/.bashrc if you want, just be sure to source the corresponding file.

Windu · 05-20-2022, 06:26 AM

What do you want to accomplish by setting LANGUAGE="en_GB:en_US:hi:fr" ? I guess for many applications the behaviour will be undefined when they attempt to parse that variable.

jheengut · 05-25-2022, 04:23 AM

When I set multiple languages in kde, this variable is set in THE shells by default.

So it was annoying to see the language in the shell to change.

pan64 · 05-25-2022, 04:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jheengut

When I set multiple languages in kde, this variable is set in THE shells by default.

And what is it good for? How is it interpreted?

Quote:

Originally Posted by jheengut

So it was annoying to see the language in the shell to change.

What is changed? I guess what you made is or what you think you made is not a valid configuration therefore the outcome is just unpredictable. But probably I'm wrong.

jheengut · 05-26-2022, 10:25 AM

Well sometimes I want to write in different languages. I just add the support in kde, this was the first time that I obtained this result.

I supposed that enabling languages support in KDE5 was not supposed to enable different functionality in other independent programs.

The order of language is not reflected in other programs other than KDE5.

IN previous version of Slackware, I didn't observe this behavior.

pan64 · 05-26-2022, 11:03 AM

kde does not require this settings LANGUAGE=en_GB:en_US:hi:fr. And also I think kde cannot use it.

jheengut · 05-27-2022, 05:29 AM

But it a setting made by KDE5 and I found that it set the language environment variable.

Do I need to consider this as a bug ?