Re: [Bug-gnubg] Changing language for GUI

[Nardy Pillards]

> > BTW, I haven't followed the discussion closely: please remind me why
> > we need a command line argument for something that can be set with
> > an env. variable?
> 
> According to Holger, there's no setenv command (or export LANG=xxx) or
> whatever available to Windows users (or I've completely misunderstood
> him). It would be nice if the language choice could be selected within
> gnubg and saved as part of the config file, but again this has
> far-reaching implications - you'd have to look for the setting in the
> config file in a separate pass, as it appears that you can't change
> gtk's locale once it is started.
> 
> Making a command line argument was more a proof-of-concept that gnubg
> could set it's own locale, but it's not a complete solution.
> Jim Segrave           address@hidden

Win32:

set LANG=it_IT
before running gnubg and gnubg runs in Italian.

Same for:
set LANG=de_DE
and
set LANG=ja_JA

(but for Japanese.... the character set for JA is somehow not 
available on Windows. no idea what or how or why)

Nardy