I want chromium browser interface to be in english![SOLVED]

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Kollin · Post by **Kollin** » Fri Feb 12, 2010 6:34 pm

http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bi ... swer=95415

that does not work!!!

Any one with ideas how to hack chromium browser ?
I just want it`s interface to be in English

sera · Post by **sera** » Fri Feb 12, 2010 7:39 pm

Passing an English locale when invoking?

Kollin · Post by **Kollin** » Fri Feb 12, 2010 8:36 pm

sera wrote:Passing an English locale when invoking?

Umm how can i do that ?

I have these locales installed:

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k
ollin@felis ~ $ locale -a
bg_BG.cp1251
bg_BG.utf8
C
en_GB
en_GB.iso88591
en_GB.utf8
POSIX

Spidey · Post by **Spidey** » Fri Feb 12, 2010 10:15 pm

I have the same problem, using LC_ALL/LANG=EN (can't remind exactly which one) chromium did the trick.

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LC_ALL=EN chromium
or
LANG=EN chromium

Is it wise to rename chromium probably in /usr/bin to /usr/bin/chromium_bin and make a bash script in /usr/bin/chromium that passes the correct environment variable?

Kollin · Post by **Kollin** » Sat Feb 13, 2010 12:35 am

Spidey wrote:I have the same problem, using LC_ALL/LANG=EN (can't remind exactly which one) chromium did the trick.
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LC_ALL=EN chromium
or
LANG=EN chromium
Is it wise to rename chromium probably in /usr/bin to /usr/bin/chromium_bin and make a bash script in /usr/bin/chromium that passes the correct environment variable?

The first suggestion gave me:

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LC_ALL=EN chromium
/bin/sh: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (EN)

(process:23318): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
        Using the fallback 'C' locale.

so i changed it a bit :

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LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8 chromium

and that is working flawlessly

the second suggestion

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LANG=EN chromium

had absolutely no effect on chromium interface language

For starting chromium i just have changed icon settings to use the following command:

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LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8 chromium %U

Thank you all for the help, very appreciated !!!

sera · Post by **sera** » Sat Feb 13, 2010 7:42 am

Nice, finally a browser with working nls support.

You could also use a shell alias to pass the locale.

Kollin · Post by **Kollin** » Sat Feb 13, 2010 8:28 am

sera wrote:Nice, finally a browser with working nls support.

You could also use a shell alias to pass the locale.

Thank you