Re: lynx-dev Re: lynx should respect LANG

[Atsuhito Kohda]

From: Thomas Dickey <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: lynx-dev Re: lynx should respect LANG
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 19:53:17 -0400

> > - it convert lynx.cfg (with simple sed script) to lynx-ja.cfg
> > like following;
> > 
> > # Include all the common options:
> > INCLUDE:/etc/lynx-ja/lynx.cfg
> > # Now override a couple:
> > CHARACTER_SET:euc-jp
> > PREFERRED_LANGUAGE:ja,en;q=0.9,*;q=0.5
> 
> I understand the goal

Thaks a lot, I am very glad to hear that.

> I understand the goal - but how do you propose we derive the preferred
> language, for instance from the $LANG value?

Well, I do not know so well about the technical aspect
of this issue but I have used the $LANG value and it seems
to work fine for (at least) Japanese users.

Generally speaking, Japanese users should set LANG
to ja_JP.ujis or ja_JP.eucJP etc. to realize the basic 
Japanese environment so I think the $LANG value might be 
possible candidate.  I guess that the situation is similar 
in other Asian countries.

But I do not know the situation, for example, in Europe
and so on.

Is it better to use the value of LC_* ?

In any way, I do not care what method to be used to determine
preferred language but I think it is important that lynx
has some mechanism to select automatically the preferred
language.

Regards,                        2000.5.23

--
 Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
 Atsuhito Kohda <address@hidden>
 Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.

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