Re: [Bug-gnubg] Changing language for GUI

[Jim Segrave]

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

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Jim Segrave           address@hidden