The K Desktop Environment

2.3. Locale

This section is handled by a standard KDE library. The only keys that are likely to have any effect are:

 Country
 Language
 Charset

A short description of the keys:

Country

indicates the country. Look in $KDEDIR/share/locale/l10n for the complete list of country codes supported by your system. The country code is used to locate the file $KDEDIR/share/locale/l10n/country_code/entry.desktop which is used to provide locale-specific information such as time and date formats and the local currency symbol.

Language

indicates the language to use for kdm (default: C, representing US English). The value can be over-ridden by the KDE_LANG environment variable.

Charset

indicates the character set to use (default: iso-8859-1).

Note

If you change the keys but all the dialogue text remains in English, this probably indicates that you do not have the translations installed on your system.