Re: Wrong language choosen on w32

[Lennart Borgman]

Jason Rumney wrote:
> LENNART BORGMAN wrote:
> > > Lennart Borgman wrote:
> > >    
> > > >  Regional settings:
> > > >  Your local (location): Swedish
> > > >  Language setting: x Western Europe and United State (default)
> > > >       
> > Control Panel - Regional Options - General.
> >   
> Unfortunately th e Regional Options control panel changes between 
> every release of Windows, on XP there is no General tab, and none of 
> the options I see let you choose "Western Europe and United States 
> (default)".
>
> In any case, that is not a language, the only thing I can think of 
> that fits that description is the default coding system (ie 
> Windows-1252).
>
> Swedish is a language, not a location, so I think that is defining the 
> locale.
>
>
> I think the problem is that the user interface for configuring this 
> has always been confusing in Windows, which I guess is why they keep 
> changing it with every release.

Yes, they are changing the look and feel of the control panel, but it 
does not matter very much here. I think Emacs just uses the wrong API to 
detect the language. Didn't I report this before - or was that for some 
other software with the same problem? I know I have seen the same 
problem in other GPL sw. Unfortunately I do not remember the API details 
any more.

BTW I am just looking at this in XP on another pc. There I choose

   Control Panel - Regional and Language Options

Sounds a bit better than the one for w2k IMO. There are 3 tabs:

  Regional Options / Languages / Advanced

On the first tab "Regional Options" there is a value called "Location". 
Seems like they have dropped "locale" and I guess that is a good choice.

On the second tab "Languages" you might expec to find language. Well, 
you find half of it. There is the keyboard layout. Searching the Help I 
found "on the 'Languages' tab, under 'Language used in menus and 
dialogs', click the language you want.

But... it is not there. A bit further down on the page I see that one 
needs something called Windows Multilingual User Interface Pack for this.

So that is why you could not find it in the control panel I guess. Quite 
confusing to just remove it IMO. Probably a business solution for something.

Anyway, Emacs is choosing language with the wrong API. Unfortunately I 
do not know more at the moment.