[Users] How to change language?

[Erik P. Olsen]

On 2017-03-27 at 04:49:56 Ralf Mardorf wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Mar 2017 00:47:27 +0200, Andrej Kacian wrote:
> >On Mon, 27 Mar 2017 00:38:26 +0200 "Erik P. Olsen" wrote:
> >  
> >> I normally run claws-mail in Danish but I sometimes need to run it
> >> in English. I thought there might be an option to select language
> >> but that's no so. I've also tried to change $LANG to en_GB.utf8 to
> >> no avail. Then how do I accomplish running an English claws-mail in
> >> a Danish environment?    
> >
> >Setting LANGUAGE=en should do the trick.  
> 
> I guess
> 
> LANG=C claws-mail
> 
> should always work.
> 
> If I e.g. run
> 
> LANG=de_DE claws-mail
> LANGUAGE=de claws-mail
> 
> I could temporarily chose German, but that requires that I once set up
> the locals.
> 
> AFAIK "C" works always to get English, even without English locales.
> 
> [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ locale | grep LAN
> LANG=en_US.utf8
> [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ locale -a
> C
> de_DE
> de_DE at euro
> de_DE.iso88591
> de_DE.iso885915 at euro
> de_DE.utf8
> deutsch
> en_GB
> en_GB.iso88591
> en_GB.utf8
> en_US.utf8
> german
> POSIX

Thanks, but that didn't help. Instead I've installed an all English system in a virtual box and I
found that it serves my purpose quite well.

-- 
Erik