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Re: [Bug-gnubg] Changing language for GUI
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Jim Segrave |
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Re: [Bug-gnubg] Changing language for GUI |
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Tue, 26 Aug 2003 12:35:33 +0200 |
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On Tue 26 Aug 2003 (01:24 +0200), Nardy Pillards wrote:
> > > 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)
Hmm - try creating:
MinGW/share/locale and MinGW/share/locale/LC_MESSAGES
I notice on my win2k partition that MinGW/share/locale is less than
complete re. countries
--
Jim Segrave address@hidden
Re: [Bug-gnubg] Changing language for GUI, Joern Thyssen, 2003/08/25