Re: Selecting the right locale under window

From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Oct 21 2002 - 22:59:05 EDT

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     --- "Kenneth J.Davis" <jeremyd@computer.org> wrote:
    > Actually it does not. It is trivial to add it,
    > however there may be issues when the language used
    > does not match well with the active codepage (or
    > whatever its called in Windows GUI).

    Codepage is the correct term.

    > [On NT this could probably be avoided, but I doubt
    > it on Win 9x.] Have a look at
    >
    http://abiword.pchasm.org/patches/ap_Win32Prefs-envlang.cpp.diff
    > which probably still applies for an example
    > implementation; though I don't claim it is fully
    > correct. :-)

    This is a good point. If there is a way to set the
    current codepage (I think there is a user one and a
    system one, one being for the GUI), then this will not
    be a problem though some languages require Unicode and
    it's probably impossible to set Unicode as the current
    codepage on Windows 9x. NT/2K/XP though will be fine
    as you say.

    Andrew.

    > It is partially derived from the Unix code. I use
    > it when I want a build that is easy to switch the UI
    > between English and Spanish.
    >
    > Jeremy Davis
    > jeremyd@computer.org
    >
    >
    > Jordi Mas <jmas@softcatala.org> wrote on 10/21/2002
    > 2:09:15 PM:
    > >
    > >En/na Karl Ove Hufthammer ha escrit:
    > >> Alan Horkan <horkana@tcd.ie> wrote in
    > ..
    > >> Doesn't setting the appropriate environemnt
    > variables work too
    > >> (just like in the Linux version)?
    > >
    > >I does not as far as I know. Windows users are
    > generally not very used to set
    > >environment variables and so on. I think is better
    > if then can change the
    > >language of the UI from the preferences.
    > >
    > >Jordi,
    > >--
    > >
    > >Jordi Mas
    > >http://www.softcatala.org
    >
    >

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