Varying locale settings among different applications?

Question

Hi, I'm using the Hebrew locale on my Arch system, which is right to left.
While this setting works pretty well on the Gnome desktop, some applications get messy from it (Like Nicotine-Plus the soulseek client, and some others)
How can I make the Hebrew locale the default for all the applications, and set the US locale for others? Or, make the US the default and apply the Hebrew one to the applications I want?

Answer 1

modifying anything in /etc/ to that intent would just negate the effect of your current hebrew locale everywhere.
so, he meant, just start apps with
LANG=whatever your_command
in console.
if you want, write a wrapper script per app to do just that: e.g I set my PATH (in e.g /etc/profile) to have /usr/local/bin before everything else, and if I want 'man' command to be overriden with specific locale i create  /usr/local/bin/man with content
#!/bin/sh
LANG=fr_FR man $*
chmod it +x, and go, man will always spit french. it will only fail when .desktop files or scripts point to 'man' with absolute path. in that case, e.g for menus, I just create another menu entry pointing to the wrapper script, and delete the previous entry.
Last edited by lloeki (2007-05-29 13:12:21)