Re: Internationalizing an application..

[Benoît Touron <b touron citb bull net>]

This is obviously a gettext issue, which is probably used for 
internationalization.
Modify your LANG environment variable before launching your app (en_US 
for english, fr_FR for french...)

See 
http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_chapter/gettext_9.html#SEC140

Ben

> Hi folks,
>
> I am writing an application with support for internationalization and
> have a few questions on how to go about it-
>
> 1. How does the application know which language should it use for the
> interface? Is it defined system wise (e.g. when I choose my Gnome
> session in some other language say Hindi) or can it be defined on an
> application basis i.e. even though my session is in English can I set
> the locale of my application (and only this application) in some other
> language? If yes, how? This question I think is more relevant when
> writing for Windows too.
>
> 2. Partially depending on the answers to questions above, can I
> provide an option to the user to change the application's language at
> runtime without having to restart the application?
>
> Appreciating any help in this.:-)
>
> Thanks..
> Ram
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