Hello,
I just installed openSUSE 11.1 Gnome on my personal PC. I reformatted everything but /home since I was in openSUSE 11.0, KDE 3.5.
/home contains a lot of files copied from a Windows partition and has not been converted to UTF-8, since I happen to transfer files (via a USB key) to my (professional) laptop under WinXP.
With 11.0 KDE 3.5, I had set $LANG to fr_FR@euro, no problem.
In 11.1 GNOME, I start Yast -> Language, I uncheck the UTF-8 box (language is fr_FR); that automatically sets RC_LANG to fr_FR@euro (all other RC variables are empty, but AUTO_DETECT_UTF-8 set to no). I reboot and relog, and half my menus are in English (the main menu reads Computer instead of Ordinateur, for example), and I can’t access my accented files in /home.
What’s wrong? I googled for a day, to no avail. Is there a bug with Gnome?
BTW, if I set RC_LANG to the value fr with ISO 8859-1, the Gnome main menu can’t start, Yast cannot display accented characters (replaced by boxes); and locale in a console displays in LANG a value with fr and ISO88591, no dash, no spaces in the ISO part.
Thanks,
tecehen
Try deleting the .gnome* file (as a differnt user or as a root login) When you next login gnome should install the default .gnome configuration.
I take it you have set French as the default language in the install?
This is what I did it after I logged to another account and discovered that openSUSE in that account was in French. However that does not solve my problem: I deleted the .gnome2, .gnome2_private and .local files from my main account, in YaST went to Language -> Details -> unchecked “Use UFT-8” and rebooted, openSUSE went berserk again 
(i.e. half English, no access to ISO 8859-1 encoded files). It’s corrected by checking again the “Use UFT-8” field.
Yes.
Any help appreciated.
tecehen