Re: [Gimp-developer] wget plugin

[Mukund Sivaraman <muks banu com>]

Hi Alexandre

On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 12:56:54PM +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been wondering for a while why the plug-in for fetching an image
> from network location always shows its messages in English, so I ended
> up looking into the code...
> 
> plug-ins/file-uri/uri-backend-wget.c has this:
> 
>       g_setenv ("LANGUAGE", "C", TRUE);
>       g_setenv ("LC_ALL", "C", TRUE);
>       g_setenv ("LANG", "C", TRUE);
> 
> And then translatable messages follow.
> 
> So the plug-in doesn't even give those messages a chance to show up as
> translated, while providing false hope :)
> 
> Is there a reason for such a cruelty? :)

The plug-in parses the output of wget to gather the status of what
happened.  So it needs the output of wget in the C locale, so it has
just 1 variant to compare.

The wget plug-in is a fallback option. Maybe you can use GVFS or
libcurl.

		Mukund