set environment language at login screen

[Rick Stevens]

Phil Schaffner wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 19:40 +0100, Shashank Sharma wrote:
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I am using FC2. I have a graphical login set up and so
>>I can choose the environment language from the login
>>screen by clicking on the Language tab at the bottom
>>left.
>>
>>By language for environment I mean that I get the
>>desktop icons and the panel all in my selected
>>language.
>>
>>My query is, how to choose language if login is set
>>for init 3. I mean, how would I choose a language for
>>my session if I don't have a graphical login screen.
> 
> 
> Believe the LANG environment variable will do it.  See what
> "env | grep LANG" shows with the desired language environment active,
> and then "export LANG=<setting>" in runlevel 3.

Try changing the "LANG=" setting in /etc/sysconfig/i18n as that sets
the default language.  /etc/sysconfig/keyboard sets the default keymap,
too.
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