[Users] How to change language?

Andrej Kacian andrej at kacian.sk
Mon Mar 27 09:11:32 CEST 2017


On Mon, 27 Mar 2017 08:24:03 +0200
"Erik P. Olsen" <epodata at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2017-03-27 at 00:47:27 Andrej Kacian wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 27 Mar 2017 00:38:26 +0200
> > "Erik P. Olsen" <epodata at gmail.com> 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.
> > 
> Thanks, but unfortunately it didn't do the trick. 
> 

That's odd, over here, simply running "LANGUAGE=xx claws-mail" starts
Claws Mail with strings (e.g. main window's menu bar) in desired
language. I just tried half a dozen languages, and they all worked
(provided that Claws Mail has translation for a given language, of
course).

Regards,
-- 
Andrej



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