Locale settings not honoured - file a bug report?

[Terry]

juha wrote:
> Terry kirjoitti:
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>> lists_mk at wujiman.net wrote:
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>>> On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 11:35:51PM +1100, Terry wrote:
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>>>> Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
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>>>>> On ven, 2006-12-08 at 11:10 +0100, lists_mk at wujiman.net wrote:
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>>>>>> 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.  
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>>>>> I guess he wants to know *how* to set those variables for Xfce...
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>>>> Yes, that would help.
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>>>> 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.
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>>> and what is the expected end result? if it's the localization of messages, are
>>> you sure thunar is localized into your language?
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>>> mk
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>> I want dates displayed according to the locale.
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>> 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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> So, if you start terminal and do
> $date
> and then you start thunar from that same terminal,
> are you saying that thunar shows dates in different format?
> Note that you must start thunar from the same environment
> or this test does not tell anything, so make sure it is not
> running before you start it.
>
> For me both are localized and the same.
>
> /Juha

The date format is correct if I do that but I don't want to start all my 
applications from Terminal.  If I use the Xfce menu utility "Run 
program...", Thunar starts with dates in the US format mm/dd/yy.

Starting KSpread using a shell script (as I do for Thunderbird and 
Thunar) is acceptable but falls down if I open a file with KSpread from 
the file browser (unless I can choose the shell script as the 
application to open the file - I have not tried that).

It sounds as though there is no way of exporting locale settings 
universally in Xfce.  Would it be appropriate to file a request for a 
feature enhancement?


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