mixed languages

pier_andreit · January 2, 2015, 1:27pm

on opensuse 13.2 and kde 4.14.3
I would like to have two users with two different languages, so, I set in yast>language primary language=english(US) and secondary language=italian ang greek selected
user=nipoti: in >configure desktop>locale country=italy languages=italian moved in preferred languages in the first place

kde result in italian, but firefox, chrome, chromium, konvertsound and many other applications result in english

how can I get for user nipoti chrome, chromium, firefox and the other application in italian???

manythnx, ciao pier

hcvv · January 2, 2015, 2:30pm

To begin with, this is from openSUSE 13.1, but it should function the same.

I have set Country to Nederland and Languages/Talen to Nederlands in the Preference column (Englisg (American) is the only one left in the Available column then) in my KDE. Firefox uses Dutch for menus. etc.
This for comparison.

What shows:

henk@boven:~> echo $LANG
nl_NL.UTF-8
henk@boven:~

pier_andreit · January 2, 2015, 4:29pm

you intend in lizard>configure desktop>locale country=nederland languages=nederlands moved in preferred languages in the first place??
like me in italian…

my echo $LANG is:

en_US.UTF-8

hcvv · January 2, 2015, 5:24pm

Why bothering in splitting this up and making it more difficult to understand? Never mind, I will accept this as if it was prompt, command, output, prompt in one sweep.

That is thus wrong. The problem is that I do not realy know how it should be cured (KDE should take care of it IMHO) except by brute force (read editting manualy. You could try to edit the .profile of the user. I have there:

henk@boven:~> grep LANG .profile
#export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8        # uncomment this line for German output
#export LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8        # uncomment this line for French output
#export LANG=es_ES.UTF-8        # uncomment this line for Spanish output
export LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8 # uncomment this line for Dutch output
henk@boven:~>

Adapt as needed. I assume it_IT.UTF-8 for Italian.
And for Greek, looking through a list I assume el_EL.UTF-8. But I am not quite sure about the second EL. Try it out.

PS, do not forget to log the user out/in after a change in .profile.

john_hudson · January 2, 2015, 11:28pm

If you use YaST to set the language of the keyboard layout that you have, you can set up to four different languages for each user with System settings (Configure desktop)>Input devices>Keyboard>Layouts. Obviously, the keytops will be those of the keyboard hardware. To change the language of the KDE desktop, you need to install the relevant KDE language package and then select that from System settings (Configure desktop)>Locale>Country/region and language>Languages.

pier_andreit · January 3, 2015, 9:32am

… sorry, I was far from pc and I asked to the user to do it by phone…

hcvv:

That is thus wrong. The problem is that I do not realy know how it should be cured (KDE should take care of it IMHO) except by brute force (read editting manualy. You could try to edit the .profile of the user. I have there:
henk@boven:~> grep LANG .profile
#export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8        # uncomment this line for German output
#export LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8        # uncomment this line for French output
#export LANG=es_ES.UTF-8        # uncomment this line for Spanish output
export LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8 # uncomment this line for Dutch output
henk@boven:~>
Adapt as needed. I assume it_IT.UTF-8 for Italian.
And for Greek, looking through a list I assume el_EL.UTF-8. But I am not quite sure about the second EL. Try it out.

PS, do not forget to log the user out/in after a change in .profile.

I will try as soon as I can…
manythanks, ciao pier

pier_andreit · January 3, 2015, 9:36am

it is relevant only for keyboard layout, not for applications languages

I did this but only kde changed languages, other applications don’t

pier_andreit · January 3, 2015, 3:57pm

hcvv:

That is thus wrong. The problem is that I do not realy know how it should be cured (KDE should take care of it IMHO) except by brute force (read editting manualy. You could try to edit the .profile of the user. I have there:
henk@boven:~> grep LANG .profile
#export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8        # uncomment this line for German output
#export LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8        # uncomment this line for French output
#export LANG=es_ES.UTF-8        # uncomment this line for Spanish output
export LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8 # uncomment this line for Dutch output
henk@boven:~>
Adapt as needed. I assume it_IT.UTF-8 for Italian.
And for Greek, looking through a list I assume el_EL.UTF-8. But I am not quite sure about the second EL. Try it out.

PS, do not forget to log the user out/in after a change in .profile.

…maaaanythanks, it works perfectly now
I added in /home/nipoti/.profile

export LANG=it_IT.UTF-8        # uncomment this line for Italian aggiunto da me

hcvv · January 3, 2015, 4:51pm

Nice, now for the Greek one

pier_andreit · January 3, 2015, 5:50pm

I added this:

export LANG=el_GR.UTF-8        # uncomment this line for Greek aggiunto da me

… ;)but greek is a quite obscure language… more than dutch I need the greek user to better check
but at first view it seems to works… a lot of strange letters somewhere appears…

hcvv · January 3, 2015, 7:14pm

I am not sure if it should be el_EL or el_GR. el being a menmonic for Helenic I assume. De second one (in capitals)is that for the country version (like there is en_US and en_UK and Portuguese for Portugal and for Brazil).

Aha, I found an iinteresting one:

henk@boven:~> locale -a | grep el_
el_CY
el_CY.utf8
el_GR
el_GR.utf8
henk@boven:~>

Which IMHO means there is a GReek and a CYpriotic region possible. You with your GR you are on the correct path to glory I think.

BTW, check all of the locale environment variable with a plain

locale