#601 LANG DE not working

[Anonymous]

Installed XTrack CAD via apt on Ubuntu Desktop. The system uses DE as language but xtrkcad starts in English. Sadly I could not find any options/settings to set the language. Wiki says it should just work but it doesn't.

Can I force a language via command line options? I tried the LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 but the UI was still English. I fixed a canberra library message but that also didn't have an effect.

Is there any way to force a specific language?

[Dave Bullis]

A number of things to try:
unset LANGUAGE
Set LC_ALL or LC_MESSAGES to de_DE.UTF-8

Upgrade to 5.3.1 (GA)

Check you have /usr/local/share/locale//de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/xtrkcad.mo
Or (for GA release) /usr/share/locale//de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/xtrkcad.mo

run
/usr/local/bin/xtrkcad-beta -d locale=3
and post the output
Run
locale
and post the output

LANG contain the setting for all categories that are not directly set by a LC_* variable.
see https://superuser.com/questions/392439/lang-and-language-environment-variable-in-debian-based-systems