First of all, greetings to old and new friends here... :) Glad to see mandrake guru, KDE translator, Debian and CLE guys here.
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 and KDE works well. However, other window managers such as enlightment refuses to show me readable Chinese.
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 ?)
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.)
Talk to you guys later, (I should be able to help do some translation work.)
Xiong Jiang (Watson)
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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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