Re: National Language Support Functions

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Jason Rumney wrote:
> Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> > We never made any decision on this issue. Most of the answers pointed 
> > to that GetUserDefaultUILanguage is the correct function to use. Or 
> > am I just misinterpreting to confirm what I said at the beginning ;-)
>
> You are just misinterpreting to agree with what you yourself believe. 
> Benjamin Riefenstahl had a similar setup as yourself, with a 
> non-English locale on an English localized version of Windows, and he 
> too would prefer the English tutorial, but I don't think we should 
> limit ourselves to the languages that Windows has been translated to, 
> and in some cases this is plainly the wrong language to use.

I am sorry, but I do not at all understand what you mean. What do you 
mean with that "I don't think we should limit ourselves to the languages 
that Windows has been translated to"? Have we discussed that at all? Is 
not this discussion about how to choose the correct language for text to 
be shown inside Emacs (in this case the tutorial of couse)?

BTW I just noticed that GIMP makes the same decision about language and 
it is quite disastrous. Everything is in Swedish. However if I need to 
search the Internet for information about GIMP then most tips are in 
English. I have however no way of knowning the English names of things 
within GIMP any more. Except of course by changing the keyboard to 
English, but then I had big trouble searching the Internet ;-)

It would be very good if we continued this discussion. It may not matter 
very much for those using an English keyboard layout, but it 
definitively does if you use for example a Swedish keyboard layout.