Actually, LC_MESSAGES is responsible for the text messages translation. Thus in some cases you may want to leave LANG, LC_CTYPE (character types) on other value, and set only LC_MESSAGES to the desires language. the command 'locale' shows the current settings.
- Oren > On 23/08/07, shimi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thursday 23 August 2007 02:34, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> > In Ubuntu 7.04 I use KDE's Konsole program to access the CLI. The >> > default language of my system is Hebrew, as is the KDE desktop, but >> > I'd prefer that the console be English only. How does once configure >> > that? >> > >> > Here is an example of Hebrew output in Konsole: >> > >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get install vmware-server >> > vmware-tools-kernel-modules >> > Reading package lists... Done >> > Building dependency tree >> > Reading state information... Done >> > The following extra packages will be installed: >> > libssl0.9.7 netkit-inetd vmware-server-kernel-modules >> > vmware-server-kernel-modules-2.6.20-16 >> > vmware-tools-kernel-modules-2.6.20-16 ××××××ת ×××ש×ת >> ××××ת ×××××ת ××××ת >> > ×××ª×§× ×ת: >> > libssl0.9.7 netkit-inetd vmware-server vmware-server-kernel-modules >> > vmware-server-kernel-modules-2.6.20-16 vmware-tools-kernel-modules >> > vmware-tools-kernel-modules-2.6.20-16 >> > 0 ×ש××ר×××, 7 ×××ª×§× ×× ××ש××, 0 ×××¡×¨× ×-4 >> ×× ×ש××ר××. >> > צר×× ×ק×× 85.3MB ×ת×× ××ר×××× ××. >> > ×××¨× ×¤×¨××¡× 145MB × ×ספ×× ×××× ×ש×××ש. >> > Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y >> > >> > I'd like that all to be in English. How? Thanks in advance. >> > >> > Dotan Cohen >> > >> > http://lyricslist.com/ >> > http://what-is-what.com/ >> >> Check out the LC* environment variables ( set | grep ^LC ) - if you >> re-export >> the relevant LC variable and set it into English, you'll get what you >> want. >> >> Do note that you're changing a user during this operation and you might >> be >> overwriting those variables when you do that; So I suggest you won't use >> sudo >> while you're testing this (but use su instead) - and when you're OK with >> the >> results, incorporate this into your shell's rc file. >> >> -- Shimi >> > > Do you mean to simply put "export LANG=C" into .bashrc? > > Dotan Cohen > > http://lyricslist.com/ > http://what-is-what.com/ > ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
