From: Alan Horkan (horkana@maths.tcd.ie)
Date: Tue Jul 15 2003 - 11:36:22 EDT
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Keith Powell wrote:
> I have three distros which have Abiword installed. Two of them, SuSE and
> Mandrake, when I run Abiword it defaults to en-GB. The third, Libranet,
> defaults to en-US. I can't get it to default to en-GB, so I have to change
> the language setting in Tools->language each time I run it in order for the
> spell checker to work in GB English.
>
> When I have manually changed the language, the next time I run it, the default
> is back to en-US.
>
> I have edited the Abiword profile in my home directory, without success.
The first time I tried to edit my Abiword.Profile it did not work.
Try again and read the instructions very very carefully.
The file contains more than one profile. Near the top there is a tag
which indicates the current profile. Make absolutely sure you change the
right profile, read the comments inside the file, read them agian and it
should eventually become clear.
The methods Dom suggested work well in particular setting the lang
variable to en-US is the easiest.
The difference is probably not between your copies of Abiword but rather
that your desktop (Gnome/KDE/whatever) does not have the language set
correctly and that abiword is _correctly_ looking up the language
that the system is telling it is the default
> Please, how do I get Abiword to default to en-GB? It's niggling that I can't
> find out the problem, and a bit of a nuisance to have to set the language
> manually each time.
Only a bit annoying? You must be really patient.
> Many thanks for any help.
>
> Cheers
>
> Keith
Good luck
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
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