Hi, We all know how to set up localized environment through shell environment variables. There is even helper packages language-env. (Or KDE etc can be started with locale set by kdm.)
But I never liked them since I get locked into a single locale. So how can we elegantly set multilingual environment in X window environment with direct access to the different language environments. My wishlists are: * UTF-8 console with English locale * UTF-8 console with Japanese locale * en_US.ISO-8859-1 console * fr_FR.ISO-8859-1 console * de_DE.ISO-8859-1 console * mozilla at the top of initial menu selection It may have been known for many but I just found that the customized Debian menu is the most elegant way to do this :-) (I used to have shell start-up script asking locale.) Long answer is here: http://qref.sourceforge.net/Debian/reference/ch-tune.en.html#s-x-cjk Key tricks used are: 1. creating customized menu entry by adding files in /etc/menu, 2. command are executed under "sh -c" to enable new environment, 3. menu entry such as "/" " ..." to get to the nicer location. Osamu PS: per user based ~/.menu entry never worked for me.