28 Dec
2000
28 Dec
'00
11:10 a.m.
Kaixo!
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 09:14:25PM -0000, Watson wrote:
I installed Mandrake 7.2, and was using Chinese
interface to
do the installation. Everything is fine, my system locale is
set to zh_CN.gb2312
zh_CN.GB2312 (capitalization of charset field seems to be very important
to xcin)
and KDE works well. However, other
window managers such as enlightment refuses to show me readable
Chinese.
The localization in enlightenment is handled in its own way, trough special
config files in themes (I'm not even sure that non themed E has i18n support).
There is a Japanese localization, so the good news is that CJK support is
possible.
I'll look at it and see if it is not possible to handle that in an easier
way (maybe a few i18n patches in the sources/themes files, and a few patches
to use gettext for the default menu entries ("logout" and such) will allow
it to be fully usable in any language. I write that in top of my TODO list
So I changed /etc/sysconfig/i18n to use en_US locale
instead,
and, 'rebooted' to make it effective. (This is the first question:
how can I make the change to 'i18n' file effective without
having to reboot ?)
You don't need to reboot, ever! (well, yes, to change your kernel).
To reread the i18n file you simply do ". /etc/profile.d/lang.sh" (fon't
forget
the "."). Note also you can use a ~/.i18n file with user preferences different
than system preferences (however, only KDE and Gnome can have multi-language
menus; implementing that for non-i18n WM will require some more patches to
support multiple menu-trees, one per language; but until then you can
have E menus in only one language).
Note however, that sourcing "lang.sh" will have effect only on new launched
programs; not on your WM. You can log out and log in again, simply.
However, enlightment still show me the mandrake menu
in
unreadable Chinese. Could this be the problem that only
the Chinese version of mandrake menu was installed ? (This is
the second question.)
Yes, the language of menus is configured in /etc/menu-methods/lang.h
(the lang()= entry is used by WM supporting only one language,
the languages()= entry by those really i18n'ed).
Once you changed the language, redo the menus by running, as root, update-menus
Talk to you guys later, (I should be able to help do
some
translation work.)
That would be indeed greatly appreciated.
Xiong Jiang (Watson)
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