set environment language at login screen

[Phil Schaffner]

On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 19:40 +0100, Shashank Sharma wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am using FC2. I have a graphical login set up and so
> I can choose the environment language from the login
> screen by clicking on the Language tab at the bottom
> left.
> 
> By language for environment I mean that I get the
> desktop icons and the panel all in my selected
> language.
> 
> My query is, how to choose language if login is set
> for init 3. I mean, how would I choose a language for
> my session if I don't have a graphical login screen.

Believe the LANG environment variable will do it.  See what
"env | grep LANG" shows with the desired language environment active,
and then "export LANG=<setting>" in runlevel 3.

Phil