Re: Localization in Cocoa/GNUstep

[Adam Fedor]

On Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 05:36 AM, Andreas Hoeschler wrote:

> Hi,
>
> after experimenting a while with localization under MacOSX and GNUstep 
> it is obvious to me that the current implementation on both platforms 
> is not reliable and predictable enough for our purposes. We will 
> therefore invent our own scheme. However, I would like to know how to 
> programmtically determine the preferred language set for a given user 
> (System Preferences on MacOSX, defaults write NSGlobalDomain ... on 
> GNUstep).
>
> On MacOSX [[NSProcessInfo processInfo] environment] returns a dic 
> containing a key LANG ("de_DE", "en_US",...). On GNUstep it does not. 
> Any hints?

In GNUstep you can use

[NSUserDefaults userLanguages]

to get an array of user languages (German, English, etc). The first 
being the default language. You can also use

GSSetLocale(LC_ALL, nil);

to get the language string (de_DE, en_US). This last one isn't 
documented, but it should be.