Bug 389610

Summary:	Kate doesn't respect language set in the system
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	Piotr Mierzwinski <piotr.mierzwinski>
Component:	application	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	kare.sars, piotr.mierzwinski
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	17.12.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Piotr Mierzwinski 2018-01-29 18:02:05 UTC

By default I have such settings:
$ env | grep -i lang
LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US:pl
I run any KDE application and I see interface in English. OK. I expected this.

I made some test.
In Konsole I set LANGUAGE environment variable and exported it like this:
export LANGUAGE=pl_PL:pl

After that I run some application. I tested following:
kwrite, okular, dolphin, gwenview, konsole and in all of them I have interface in language related to variable set before, so in polish. Only when I run Kate I see English.
Which variable respects Kate, and why ignore "LANGUAGE"?

Comment 1 Kåre Särs 2018-01-30 07:52:19 UTC

Do you have the translations for Kate installed?

Comment 2 Piotr Mierzwinski 2018-01-30 18:11:18 UTC

Yes I do. I have installed translation for kate.
In my distribution kate package is provided with all translation inside.

$ pacman -Q kate
kate 17.12.1-1

$ pacman -Ql kate | grep pl/ | grep .mo
kate /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/kate-ctags-plugin.mo
kate /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/kate-replicode-plugin.mo
kate /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/kate.mo
kate /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/katebacktracebrowserplugin.mo
kate /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/katebuild-plugin.mo
kate /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/katecloseexceptplugin.mo
kate /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/katefilebrowserplugin.mo
kate /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/katefiletree.mo
kate /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/kategdbplugin.mo
kate /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/katekonsoleplugin.mo
kate /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/kateopenheader.mo
kate /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/kateproject.mo
kate /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/katesearch.mo
kate /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/katesnippetsplugin.mo
kate /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/katesql.mo
kate /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/katesymbolviewer.mo
kate /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/katetextfilter.mo
kate /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/katexmlcheck.mo
kate /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/katexmltools.mo
kate /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/kterustcompletion.mo
kate /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/ktexteditorpreviewplugin.mo
kate /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/plasma_applet_org.kde.plasma.katesessions.mo
kate /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/tabswitcherplugin.mo

$ pwd
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES
$ ls -l | grep "kate.*mo$"
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   3963 01-09 23:22 katebacktracebrowserplugin.mo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   5588 01-09 23:22 katebuild-plugin.mo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1826 01-09 23:22 katecloseexceptplugin.mo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   4723 01-09 23:22 kate-ctags-plugin.mo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1572 01-09 23:22 katefilebrowserplugin.mo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   6575 01-09 23:22 katefiletree.mo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   3762 01-09 23:22 kategdbplugin.mo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2296 01-09 23:22 katekonsoleplugin.mo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  27616 01-09 23:22 kate.mo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2092 01-09 23:22 kateopenheader.mo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2436 01-09 23:22 kateproject.mo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   5733 01-09 23:22 kate-replicode-plugin.mo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   7952 01-09 23:22 katesearch.mo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   8774 01-09 23:22 katesnippetsplugin.mo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   7127 01-09 23:22 katesql.mo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2884 01-09 23:22 katesymbolviewer.mo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2439 01-09 23:22 katetextfilter.mo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1280 01-09 23:22 katexmlcheck.mo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2707 01-09 23:22 katexmltools.mo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1075 01-09 23:22 plasma_applet_org.kde.plasma.katesessions.mo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    830 01-02 19:40 plasma_runner_katesessions.mo

Comment 3 Kåre Särs 2018-01-31 08:15:23 UTC

Is there a possibility that you have changed/set the language in the Help -> Switch application language ?

/Kåre

Comment 4 Piotr Mierzwinski 2018-01-31 19:32:31 UTC

@Kåre Särs
Of course there is such possibility. I made one more test.

Ok. When I changed translation manually to polish (in Primary) then after I restarted application I got polish language in kate.
I restored setting of LANGUAGE to en_US:pl and kate still had polish language in interface, whereas kwrite is in English.

It's mean that exists some option stored in some configuration file (I wasn't able to find it in ~/.config/katerc) that has higher priority than settings of environment and probably I used it in the past, so that's why every time I see English in kate interface. Now I only wonder where is placed this option and how it calls.
Anyway issue solved. Actually it wasn't bug.

Comment 5 Kåre Särs 2018-01-31 21:41:34 UTC

OK,

Thanks for the info, I actually do not know on the top of my head either :)

Closing this bug.