Locale settings not honoured

[Terry]

lists_mk at wujiman.net wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 11:35:51PM +1100, Terry wrote:
>   
>> Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
>>     
>>> On ven, 2006-12-08 at 11:10 +0100, lists_mk at wujiman.net wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> do you have LC_* environment variables set for xfce? 
>>>>
>>>> when you start xfce, open terminal and type "locale". check, that the
>>>> settings
>>>> are what you want.  
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> I guess he wants to know *how* to set those variables for Xfce...
>>>       
>> Yes, that would help.
>>
>> When I type "locale" into Terminal, I get the correct responses but, 
>> somehow, they are not being adopted by all applications, Thunar, as I 
>> mentioned, being one.
>>     
>
> and what is the expected end result? if it's the localization of messages, are
> you sure thunar is localized into your language?
>
> mk

I want dates displayed according to the locale.

I daresay Thunar is not localised.  That is the point of my enquiry.  
What do I do to localise applications on Xfce?  On Kde the settings in 
the file i18n are sufficient.


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