Re: [Bug-gnubg] Windows libintl and locales

[Joern Thyssen]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 10:30:52PM +0200, Nardy Pillards wrote
> From: "Joern Thyssen" <address@hidden>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 5:50 PM
> 
> > On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 02:01:35PM +0200, Nardy Pillards wrote
> > >
> > > With both the latest build and the language package, users with a
> > > DA/DE/IT/JA version of Windows will get a localized gnubg now.
> >
> > The Danish translation is very much incomplete, so I don't think we
> > should distribute it with the windows build.
> >
> > A question: is it possible to control the language runtime like on unix
> > by setting an environment variable before starting gnubg.exe?
> >
> > Jørn
> 
> (I get your posts as .txt attachment... Thus apologies for copy&paste here)

Hmm, your email program doesn't understand PGP signatures. Do you have
the same problem with Achim's mails?

> Windows 'knows' which language it is using.

Yes, but even though I have a Danish version of windows I still prefer
programs in English. Especially when the translation is only partial :-)

> There are utilities (and you can do it within Windows also) that
> change the language setting. But then this setting will influence all
> other programs too.  So that does not seem to be good idea.

Just guessing I would think it would be possible to make a gnubg.bat
file with something like (forgive my DOSsian):

set LANG="de_DE"
gnubg.exe

Perhaps this overrides whatever language windows think it should use.

Jørn

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