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Can't change language.

Postby nevdelap » 14 Aug 2009 07:47

I've come to the conclusion after many annoying hours that my VLC might have something missing from the Preferences. I've found posts saying that in Preferences > Interface there should be something to allow language selection and yet mine does not have that, either in show simple mode, or show all mode.

The es.mo is there, my system is all in spanish other than VLC, but VLC doesn't realise it and I can't find anywhere to do it manually.

I have 0.9.9a from the ubuntu repositories, installed in Kubuntu 9.04, and vlc-data has the es.mo file as I said.

Thanks in advance for you help,

Nev

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Re: Can't change language.

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 14 Aug 2009 11:16

Use LANG
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Re: Can't change language.

Postby nevdelap » 15 Aug 2009 21:34

Thanks. So just one more question - is that workaround (it did work), or is it the recommended/only supported way to change languages? Is my install missing something? Best regards, Nev

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Re: Can't change language.

Postby Rémi Denis-Courmont » 16 Aug 2009 08:08

The proper way consists of selecting the right locale:

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sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
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