xfe/xfw ignore LANG settings

[hjbtce]

I've installed xfe and xfe-locale. LANG is set do "de". a grep on xfe.mo confirms that it contains german strings but xfe/xfw still start with english menus.

Any hints?

[curaga]

Have you installed a german locale (with getlocale.tcz)?

[Misalf]

Exit out of X (CTRL+Alt+Backspace) then

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$ export LANG=de_DE
$ startx

Lauch Xfe with german locale.
I just tryed it - works for me.

[hjbtce]

Exit out of X (CTRL+Alt+Backspace) then

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$ export LANG=de_DE
$ startx

Lauch Xfe with german locale.
I just tryed it - works for me.

Lucky guy ... It makes no difference for me. And it is not practicable. In the meantime I installed getlocale, run getlocale.sh and selected "de_DE.UTF-8". The bootcode is set and in a terminal I can see that $LANG contains it as well. Does it make a difference, that /tmp/tcloop/...xfe-locale/... only contains an "de" directory and not "de_DE". Renaming/linking is not possible as it is mounted readonly.

[Misalf]

[...] And it is not practicable. [...]

Sure, I tryed if it works in general and it does for me.

In the meantime I installed getlocale, run getlocale.sh and selected "de_DE.UTF-8". The bootcode is set and in a terminal I can see that $LANG contains it as well.

I also tryed via boot code  lang=de_DE  and  lang=de_DE.UTF-8
Both does work.

Does it make a difference, that /tmp/tcloop/...xfe-locale/... only contains an "de" directory and not "de_DE". [...]

It's correct like that.

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I don't think it's an Xfe related issue. Are you able to get any other program to use german locale?

[hjbtce]

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I don't think it's an Xfe related issue. Are you able to get any other program to use german locale?

Thanks for your tests and hints. I got it working. I made a new installation with 5.3; previous was 4.7.something. Before installing xfe/xfw I installed and run getlocale*. After that I installed all xfe/w related stuff and now I get the menus in german. So that problem is solved.

But now I have a new problem (I will open another thread, but perhaps you have an idea): I can input german umlauts in xfw, but in aterm I get strange symbols when entering umlauts. I have kmaps installed, set boot code kmap to qwertz/de-latin1 and put the corresponding loadkeys definition in /opt/bootlocal.sh. Seems a mismatch between latin1 and UTF-8 but I'm quite shure this problem didn't exist in my previous installation. I will try to load only qwertz/de.

[Misalf]

Yes, open a new thread please. I wasn't able to get Aterm displaying Umlaute / using UTF-8 correctly, either.

Actually, there might already exist such a thread.