Re: [linux] Can not get rid of Arabic

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Author: Buddhika Siddhisena
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To: Alan Dacey Sr.
CC: linux
Subject: Re: [linux] Can not get rid of Arabic
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.<Grokit@???> 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
>
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Bud


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