KDE: setting LANGUAGE=en_US:pl causes output of ls --help translated in Polish
by igadoter from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5R2H6)
Where this variable comes from? It seems is being set only by Plasma, Xfce doe not use it at all. My choice of system language is English. So I rather expect output of ls --help should be in English. Translations are not reliable. Sometimes very bad. Here example
Code:bash-5.1$ export LANGUAGE="en_US:pl"
bash-5.1$ ls --help
Skadnia: ls [OPCJA]... [PLIK]...
Wypisanie informacji o PLIKACH (domylnie w katalogu biecym). Sortowane
alfabetyczne, jeeli nie jest podana adna z opcji -cftuvSUX ani --sort.
.......but
Code:bash-5.1$ export LANGUAGE=""
bash-5.1$ ls --help
Usage: ls [OPTION]... [FILE]...
List information about the FILEs (the current directory by default).
Sort entries alphabetically if none of -cftuvSUX nor --sort is specified.My general settings for Plasma are that English is default language. Seems LANGUAGE is being set by KDE during startup.
Code:bash-5.1$ export LANGUAGE="en_US:pl"
bash-5.1$ ls --help
Skadnia: ls [OPCJA]... [PLIK]...
Wypisanie informacji o PLIKACH (domylnie w katalogu biecym). Sortowane
alfabetyczne, jeeli nie jest podana adna z opcji -cftuvSUX ani --sort.
.......but
Code:bash-5.1$ export LANGUAGE=""
bash-5.1$ ls --help
Usage: ls [OPTION]... [FILE]...
List information about the FILEs (the current directory by default).
Sort entries alphabetically if none of -cftuvSUX nor --sort is specified.My general settings for Plasma are that English is default language. Seems LANGUAGE is being set by KDE during startup.