Hi Alan, On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 7:25 AM, Alan Dacey Sr. wrote: > The locale is Sri Lanka. The odd thing is that it only happened for that > one > user. The other three are fine, whatever Sinhalese strings are available > are > in Sinhalese. It happened for both Gnome and KDE applications. The KDE > system settings and synaptic both had Arabic here and there. So all apps > had > Sinhala, English and Arabic characters in them. Freaky weird. > I deleted the user and recreated her. That fixed the problem. You must get all the KDE apps in English and most of the Gnome apps in Sinhala. KDE Sinhala version will be release with KDE 4.3.2 or KDE 4.3.3 . there was a bug in KDE, mixing Indic characters with English, but it fixed now. > > > Alan > > > On Wednesday 26 August 2009 10:16:12 pm Buddhika Siddhisena wrote: > > Hi Alan, > > > > Hmm strange. Sinhala and Arabic appearing at the same time? Is Sinhala > > appearing on gnome menus and Ababic on kde? What is output of locale? > > > > $ locale > > > > Also try creating a new user and see if that user has the same issue. > > > > Bud > > > > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Alan Dacey Sr. > wrote: > > > Hi all, first post here. > > > I'm sending a computer to Sri Lanka for some kids so I installed > > > Sinhalese since they do not know English yet. I got it working fine > for > > > three of the accounts but the account I used to install it in shows > > > Arabic for some things. The machine is running Ubuntu 9.10 with the KDE > > > 4.3 desktop. > > > For example, the menu entry for Kapote is in Arabic and the System > > > Settings are in Sinhalese. When i open the System Settings and go to > set > > > the languages, the tabs are all in Arabic. I un-installed the Arabic > > > language pack, renamed the .kde folder and rebooted - Arabic was still > > > there. I changed the order of what language to display, I removed both > > > British and American English so Sinhala is the only language. Still > > > Arabic is there. I ran out of things to try after I found nothing on > > > this in google. Did anybody else have this problem or does anyone know > > > what file I need to edit to purge Arabic from the system? I can delete > > > the user and then recreate her, but I did a lot of customization and > > > figured I would ask here first. > > > > > > Alan > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > linux mailing list > > > linux@lug.lk > > > https://secure.lug.lk/mailman/listinfo/linux > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-raw mailing list > linux-raw@lug.lk > https://secure.lug.lk/mailman/listinfo/linux-raw > -- Danishka Navin http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com (use Sinhala Unicode fonts)