Juan Carlos Inostroza <jci@xxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 14:32, Jingcao Hu wrote: >> For instance, what I want to achieve is that, when I click the Audio player >> icon in the desktop, it will automatically set up the locale of XMMS to >> zh_CN so that the songs with name in Chinese can be properly decoded. (Right >> now I have to fire it in terminal by typing "export LANG=zh_CN && xmms which >> is not convenient). > > try passing the environment variable before running xmms > > i.e.: LANG=zh_CN xmms Wow, cool. That solves the problem. > >> I tested a little bit with the configure files in $HOME/Desktop directory >> but with no luck. Is there a place that I can find the complete list of the >> allowed keys for such configuration file? > > did you installed an additional locale (language support, during the > installation phase)? did you check for language errors? (locale not > supported, etc?) did you configured the locales? Yes, in the installation I selected all the locale support including fonts for Chinese, but I am still using en_US as my locale, as I would like to continue use English as my default language. Is there a better way which allows me to continue use English as my default locale (as in menus, etc), but set zh_CN as the second? Thanks a lot Juan.