X environment

[Peter Humphrey]

On Tuesday 28 February 2006 01:16, Jan wrote:

> I'm using Gentoo with Xfce as desktop (with GDM for login).
> In file /etc/profile.env I have line:
> export LANG='en_US.UTF-8'
>
> However for certain user I want LC_COLLATE to be
> LC_COLLATE='ja_JP.UTF-8', therefore I set it in
> ~user/.bashrc
>
> The problem is that in xterm I get it set properly however when running
> (for example evolution mail client) from xfce menu
> LC_COLLATE='ja_JP.UTF-8' is apparently ignored. (Addresses in evolution
> are not sorted properly).

When I needed to set my en_GB keyboard recently I found I needed to put a 
statement in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, all locales in my environment being 
ignored. Maybe there's a corresponding one for your need.

-- 
Rgds
Peter