On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 09:33:02PM +1100, Ben Burton wrote: > > reassign 234583 kdelibs4 > thanks mate > > > I installed kprof and it looks the same -- characters from menus, > > buttons etc. are replaced with rectangles. I attach 2 screenshots. > > The only KDE app I was using before was k3b, and k3b is broken now too > > with the same symptoms. It's maybe a month since I last used k3b, so I > > can't tell when it broke. > > Eek, looks unpleasant. What are your $LANG and $KDE_LANG set to, and > what translation do you have set in your KDE control centre? > > In the meantime I'm reassigning this to kdelibs4 since this seems to be > a generic problem with KDE, not just restricted to koffice. > > Ben.
Checking locale was a good idea, I tracked it down to [EMAIL PROTECTED] causing the problem. Yes, I recently changed that. $KDE_LANG is not set at all. After unsetting LC_TYPE, apps work as expected. Here is my locale settings, which work fine with non-kde apps: tulkas:~> locale LANG=en_US [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] LC_MESSAGES=en_US [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] LC_ALL= The KDE control center was not installed. I installed it and found no german localization options. So I searched for and installed kde-i18n-de and koffice-i18n-de. I now see german in the languages options, but the country options drop down box is still empty. And [EMAIL PROTECTED] still does not work. Note that I don't want german messages, I just want my german keyboard, date format, character ordering with umlauts, and other stuff to work. Drop the grave severity. It's inconvenient but not unusable now. Lastly, it would be great if there would be a way to sync kde localization package installation somehow with /etc/locales.gen or some other mechanism. I recognize this is no trivial task. -Jürgen -- The box said it requires Windows 95 or better so I installed Linux
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