Re: [Fedora-i18n-list] i18n LANG setting in FC3

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On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Jamie Larsen wrote:

> After I changed the LANG setting in i18n, and restarted it ("source 
> ./i18n), my desktop changed into Chinese.  So I Iogged off and re-logged 
> in (& selecting English as default).  Thereafter, the setting in i18n 
> seemed to lose any effect.

If you selected English in gdm login screen, you will override any 
language set in /etc/sysconfig/i18n. 

Order of where to get language settings first:
1. gdm
2. ~/.i18n
3. /etc/sysconfig/i18n

Hope it helps,
Leon

> 
> Jens Petersen wrote:
> 
> > Jamie Larsen wrote:
> >
> >> I changed the LANG setting in /etc/sysconfig/i18n to
> >>
> >> LANG=zh_TW.Big5 (or zh_TW.UTF-8) from the default LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> >>
> >> An "echo $LANG" shows that the LANG setting has been changed to the 
> >> new value.  However, this change is effective only in that session.  
> >> When I start a new shell, the LANG setting goes back to the default 
> >> value.  Is there any script in FC3 that overwrites i18n settings?
> >
> >
> > How about after rebooting say?
> >
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 Leon Ho                      <llch at redhat.com>
 Team Lead, I18N Engineering  Red Hat Asia-Pacific   
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