Re: [Bug-gnubg] Windows libintl and locales

[Jim Segrave]

On Thu 14 Aug 2003 (17:56 +0200), Holger wrote:
> At 15:50 13.08.2003 +0000, Joern Thyssen wrote:
> >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?

gnubg can always call set_locale(). 
 
> Yes. On Windows gettext does recognise the nationality itself without 
> setting any environment variable. I guess it reads it from global settings. 
> With e.g. a batch file it's possible to have a different language:
> 
> @echo off
> set LANG=it_IT
> gnubg.exe
> 
> On a German Windows without anything gives the German translation. Setting 
> LANG before gives Italian.
> 
> On the long run I'm not that fond of the batch file, though. I'd prefer a 
> notebook page under options for this (under Windows), as this would be the 
> normal behaviour on Windows. But for now a batch file is certainly enough.
> 
> Regards,
> 
>         Holger 
> 
> 
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