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Re: Mathematica won't run if LANG var is set to pt_BR

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• Subject: [mg60269] Re: Mathematica won't run if LANG var is set to pt_BR
• From: Jie Li <jli24 at emory.edu>
• Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 04:07:09 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Emory University
• References: <dfm7v8$hcn$1@smc.vnet.net>
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Renan <renan.birck at gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I have installed Mathematica in Linux (Ubuntu Linux 5.04 - essentially
> Debian) and works OK, as long as my LANG environment variable is set to 'C'
> (which means 'no specific language') or 'US'.
>
> But I want to use the GNOME window manager in Portuguese, and this,
> "automagically" sets the LANG variable to pt_BR (which means 'Brazilian
> Portuguese'). When this is set, Mathematica will not run, it will error at
> startup with "An illegal right-hand side value was specified for the cell
> style option "FontColor"".
>
> Anybody knows how to fix this problem?
>
> I use Mathematica 5.0.
>
> Thanks,
> Renan




Dear Renan,

Probabaly you can make your own script like this, and name
it mathematica and put it in ~/bin :

#!/bin/sh
export LANG=C
/path/to/your/mathematica


Hope this helps,
Jie