Re: [PATCH] make balsa Euro-ready
- From: Matthias Andree <ma+balsa dt e-technik uni-dortmund de>
- To: balsa-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] make balsa Euro-ready
- Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 11:11:47 +0100
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Albrecht Dreك wrote:
> Am 14.11.2001 22:55:27 schrieb(en) Matthias Andree:
> >Seriously, should not the default itself be configurable by the user?
> >Guessing the charset from the locale will work out in most cases, but
> >why not leave the choice for the default to the user?
>
> Yes, of course you are right at this point. Usually the user will set the
> LANG environt variable, e.g. for german either to de_DE (in which case we
> should use the default) or to de_DE.<charset> which should result in
> <charset> being used. So it might be a good idea to just check the result of
>
> g_getenv("LANG"). IMHO there should be no further config option.
Careful. Balsa supports multiple identities per user, and just looking
at LANG, LC_LANG or something may not be appropriate. Do not create
artificial limitations.
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