Testing other languages isn't that hard, if you want to try. Example for debian linux:1. Ensure that the linux distribution itself has language support. The reason for this is that LyX will not be allowed to select a GUI language not also supported by the distribution. a) "apt-get install locales" or "dpkg-reconfigure locales" b) add some other language from the presented list, for example nb_NO.UTF-8 It must be one of the languages supported by LyX, of course. Note that this action will _not_ mess up your working english setup - you merely get more options. Some distros install with all locales - in that case you start at step 2 instead. 2. Open an xterm, and activate the language for that one command-line session like this: "export LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8" 3. Run LyX from that xterm. You should now get LyX in the other language - anything still left in english is untranslated stuff.
I followed your instructions and setenv LANG zh_CN.UTF-8. lyx seems to pick up zh_CN.gmo because I see blank characters for translated strings. It looks like a font problem but gvim displays Chinese just fine under the same environment... Is there anything else I need to do to show Chinese characters in lyx under linux? Note that I nb_NO.UTF-8 works here, but not Chinese. Bo
