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From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To: vittorio <vdemart1@tin.it>
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Subject: Re: Different languages in the same applications under kde & konsole
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On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:45:48PM +0100, vittorio wrote:
> I run  freebsd 7.0 and kde 3.5.8, both in Italian.
> Now it happens that if I launch either gimp or abiword from the kde konsole 
> the two applications "speak" Italian while if I launch them from the icons 
> (that I created) on the desktop they "switch" to English.
> 
> Why is that and what can I do for making the applications speak Italian?

It's probably an environment setting setting that you've got for your
shell that you haven't got withing X. Check for and set $LANG, $LC_ALL
in ~/.xsession.
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Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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