On 04/03/2014 05:30 PM, "IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU)" wrote: > hi, > > bit of background: > my system is setup to use C/en as default (there are few things i hate > more than localized compiler errors). > however some desktop applications (most noteably: gramps) i'd like to > run in german. > > On 04/03/2014 02:31 PM, Ross Gammon wrote: >> >> I have come across similar problems before. I believe that Gramps does >> not support non-UTF-8 locales. > > i sincerely hope that i got rid of all non-utf8 locales a long time ago. > > however,... > >> If you start with "LANG=de", gramps >> will default to the "C" locale. >> >> Could you try?: >> $ LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 gramps >> > > did that (and also tried `LANG=de_AT.UTF-8 gramps` which is the actual > locale i'm trying to use) to no avail. > > however, while doing so, i noticed that (after a recent re-installation > of the entire system) the only locale i had configured on my system was > en_US.UTF-8. > building de_AT.UTF-8 did not help. > > then i dug into gramps a little bit, and noticed that "-v" should print > out (among other things) the currently used locale: > > $ locale > LANG=en_US.utf8 > LANGUAGE=en_US:en > ... > LC_ALL= > > $ LANG=de_AT.UTF-8 /usr/bin/gramps -v > ... > Environment settings: > --------------------- > LANG : en_US.UTF-8 > LANGUAGE : en:en > GRAMPSI18N: not set > GRAMPSHOME: not set > GRAMPSDIR : not set > ... > > # so i tried using LANGUAGE instead: > > $ LANGUAGE=de /usr/bin/gramps -v > ... > Environment settings: > --------------------- > LANG : de_DE.UTF-8 > LANGUAGE : de > GRAMPSI18N: not set > GRAMPSHOME: not set > GRAMPSDIR : not set > PYTHONPATH: > ... > > # that looked promising! > > $ LANGUAGE=de /usr/bin/gramps > > # gives me a german gramps! > > i'm sure it did work wit LANG previously. > anyhow, i'll adapt my scripts to use LANGUAGE now. > > > mdar > IOhannes > Wierd - LANG worked for me when I tested this morning. But at least we got there. I have picked up on the Gramps mailing list that there have been some changes in the 4.0.x series because of problems with locales in Windows. Maybe that work was the source of the change that hit you. Cheers, Ross
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