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Issue tracking for the Steam for Linux beta client
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launch games with LC_ALL=C by default? #3410

Open cjwijtmans opened 10 years ago

cjwijtmans commented 10 years ago

some games require an international LC_ALL setting to work. For example Planet Explorers. And there are plenty of others games that get bugged out when they are launched with some locale settings the game isnt designed for.

gdrewb-valve commented 10 years ago

I doubt Steam could choose any forced option that would work in all situations so just leaving it unchanged is probably the best way to go.

You can change the launch parameters for a game to set it to whatever you prefer.

cjwijtmans commented 10 years ago

its not a parameter its an environment variable. Will that still work?

And i actually think the opposite of what you said is true. Most games/languages are build on C behavior not national locales.

gdrewb-valve commented 10 years ago

You can set environment variables on launch, or you could change the launch to run a script.