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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    locale setting in startkde
From:       Matthias Hoelzer-Kluepfel <mhk () caldera ! de>
Date:       2000-09-28 11:33:17
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Hi,

this is a little patch that reads the country and locale information from the 
kdeglobals file and exports the LANG and LC_ALL env vars accordingly.

I only tested it with German, where it works well. Any comments? Would it be 
a good idea to add it to startkde?


Bye,
Matthias.

["locale.patch" (text/english)]

Index: startkde
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/kde/kdebase/startkde,v
retrieving revision 1.71
diff -u -r1.71 startkde
--- startkde	2000/09/16 13:13:36	1.71
+++ startkde	2000/09/28 10:47:16
@@ -48,6 +48,22 @@
 kdehome=$HOME/.kde
 test -n "$KDEHOME" && kdehome=$KDEHOME
 
+
+# set the default locale according to the settings in kdeglobals
+ 
+CONFIG=$KDEHOME/share/config/kdeglobals
+ 
+c=`grep Language $CONFIG | cut -d= -f2`
+if [ $c ]; then
+  export LANG=$c
+fi
+ 
+l=`grep Country $CONFIG | cut -d= -f2`
+if [ $l ]; then
+  export LC_ALL=$l
+fi
+
+
 # Activate the kde font directories.
 #
 # There are 4 directories that may be used for supplying fonts for KDE.


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