Re: Abiword language settings

From: Dom Lachowicz (domlachowicz@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jul 15 2003 - 09:15:13 EDT

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    Your $LANG probably isn't set to en_GB.

    In any event, you can always use the "normal.awt"
    trick - this is the default template that AbiWord
    starts from. Find it, change all of the 'lang:en-US'
    to 'lang:en-GB' and then save it.

    Dom

    --- Keith Powell <keith@keithg4jvx.force9.co.uk>
    wrote:
    > I have three distros which have Abiword installed.
    > Two of them, SuSE and
    > Mandrake, when I run Abiword it defaults to en-GB.
    > The third, Libranet,
    > defaults to en-US. I can't get it to default to
    > en-GB, so I have to change
    > the language setting in Tools->language each time I
    > run it in order for the
    > spell checker to work in GB English.
    >
    > When I have manually changed the language, the next
    > time I run it, the default
    > is back to en-US.
    >
    > I have edited the Abiword profile in my home
    > directory, without success.
    >
    > I have replaced the Libranet home directory Abiword
    > profile with one from
    > SuSE, but still it defaults to en-US.
    >
    > I can't see any differences between the Abiword
    > files in the three
    > installations which could be causing this.
    >
    > Please, how do I get Abiword to default to en-GB?
    > It's niggling that I can't
    > find out the problem, and a bit of a nuisance to
    > have to set the language
    > manually each time.
    >
    > Many thanks for any help.
    >
    > Cheers
    >
    > Keith
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