Re: [Bug-gnubg] Windows libintl and locales

[Nardy Pillards]

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)

I will remove the Danish translation.

Windows 'knows' which language it is using.
If a Dutch Windows is installed, gnubg will look for /locale/nl...
If a German Windows is installed, gnubg will look for /locale/de...
and so on.

So one can 'fool' a Dutch Windows to use the German gnubg.mo by copying
de/lc_messages/gnubg.mo to nl/lc_messages/gnubg.mo.

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.


Nardy