Setting language to be displayed in KDE
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Q:
How do I set the language used by KDE?
A:
There are two ways to set the language KDE uses in the messages it will display:
Using the KDE Control Center
Fire up the KDE Control Center and select Personalization followed by Country and Language. You can select your language and location here. If KDE cannot find a translation in the first language chosen, it will fall back on the default language. This is usually (American) English by default.
(Note: Using the KDE Control Center is the preferred way of choosing languages in KDE.)
Using the LANG environment variable
The second method uses the standard locale setting on your system. To change the language, simply set the environment variable LANG accordingly. For example, if your shell is bash, execute export LANG=de to set German as the language used.
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