Re: multilingual setup ...

2020-02-27 Thread Albretch Mueller
Thank you Greg et al: Well, most people would not want to deal with those are the kinds of complex issues. No wonder all you find online are all kinds of problems while trying to do such things. The romantic, silly side of me still thinks that probably using the JVM you could find a way to hac

Re: multilingual setup ...

2020-02-27 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 04:56:06PM +0100, Albretch Mueller wrote: > On 2/27/20, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Note the key phrase "when I su into a shell". > > That is VERY different from "I want each user to have a different locale > > when they login". > > OK, each user should have "language interf

Re: multilingual setup ...

2020-02-27 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 2/27/20, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Note the key phrase "when I su into a shell". > That is VERY different from "I want each user to have a different locale > when they login". OK, each user should have "language interfacing personas" LIP (to call it something) and after (s)he logs in (s)he will

Re: multilingual setup ...

2020-02-27 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 03:45:24PM +0100, Albretch Mueller wrote: > > Is there any chance that this is an X-Y problem? > > If you are referring to: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem > > I wonder if your own question/mind is. What could possibly be X-Y > about a multi-lingual set up

Re: multilingual setup ...

2020-02-27 Thread Albretch Mueller
Well, it seems there are aspects relating to such matters which are pretty straightforward but some aren't at all. If some application maintainers don't care about such matters (which some politics around the edges) that makes such matters very difficult to handle and maintain. OSs are large, de

Re: multilingual setup ...

2020-02-26 Thread deloptes
john doe wrote: > I install Debian with the 'C' local and build extra locales that are > needed. Then in the CLI I use the desired local using 'LANG' and LANGUAGE' > in the files mentioned in this thread. If you have a desktop environment > (gnome mate ...) you also need to install language packag

Re: multilingual setup ...

2020-02-26 Thread john doe
On 2/26/2020 1:34 PM, Albretch Mueller wrote: > I have searched for a solution to a problem which apparently many > people have, but all I find are problems while tryng to do it. I think > there should be a straight forward way to do that: > > Most of us are multilingual. I want to set up differe

Re: multilingual setup ...

2020-02-26 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 01:34:13PM +0100, Albretch Mueller wrote: > Most of us are multilingual. I want to set up different users with > different languages as default and then when I su into a shell as a > particular user and start, say, libreofice, firefox and Eclipse as a > certain user that wo

Re: multilingual setup ...

2020-02-26 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 01:50:30PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 01:34:13PM +0100, Albretch Mueller wrote: > > Most of us are multilingual. I want to set up different users with > > different languages as default and then when I su into a shell as a >

Re: multilingual setup ...

2020-02-26 Thread tomas
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 01:03:08PM -, Curt wrote: > On 2020-02-26, wrote: [language environment] > I suppose for libreoffice and Firefox you would need to install the > appropriate language packages at least as well > > libreoffice-l10n-ast - office productivity suite -- Asturian languag

Re: multilingual setup ...

2020-02-26 Thread Curt
On 2020-02-26, wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 01:34:13PM +0100, Albretch Mueller wrote: >> I have searched for a solution to a problem which apparently many >> people have, but all I find are problems while tryng to do it. I think >> there should be a straight forward way to do that: >> Mo

Re: multilingual setup ...

2020-02-26 Thread tomas
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 01:34:13PM +0100, Albretch Mueller wrote: > I have searched for a solution to a problem which apparently many > people have, but all I find are problems while tryng to do it. I think > there should be a straight forward way to do that: > > Most of us are multilingual. I w