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Hi,

I am running Slackware 10.2 / KDE. I recently downloaded the CVS version of Sweep (audio editor, http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/), compiled it (./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-alsa), installed it, and it runs fine... in english.

I wanted to take a look at the different translations, since I want to work on the french translation. So I opened Konsole and typed:

$ LANG=de_DE
$ sweep

I eventually repeated this operation with LANG parameter set to it_IT, fr_FR, pl_PL, etc.

Problem: special characters (é, è, à, ö, ä, ü, ...) are not displayed. And all the subsequent text after a special character is also blank. Thus, the message "Créer un nouveau fichier" becomes simply "Cr ", you get the picture.

I posted a similar message to alt.os.linux.slackware, without getting a solution. I spent maybe 48 hours on Google. Sent messages to poedit mailing lists, nothing.

So I thought I'd ask one of the gurus on Slacky.it maybe one of you guys can try out the app and see if it works in italian. (Similarly, everytime there is an "è", the message disappears).

ciao,

Niki

PS: e possibile rispondere in italiano. Capisco un poco, ma non posso scribere abbastanza bene

Hi,
i've installed sweep but the stable version 0.8.4, and it works in italian, no problem with expecial characters.

i've a "export LANG=it_IT" in my .bashrc.

Perhaps you have to ask help in the developer-ML, reporting the bug...but try first with the stable release

good luck and sorry my english

bye

Have you changed your CHARSET variable? It should be set to "iso8859-15"

to make Slackware speak French you have to do these things:
in /etc/profile you have to add these lines (after # Set the values for some environment variables): in /etc/profile.d/lang.sh you have to write instead of in /etc/profile.d/lang.csh you have to write instead of byez!

Mille grazie for your help! Actually, the solution was much more simple. It was just a matter of:
or
And everything works A-OK.

thanks,

Niki