Re: How to create a simple multilingual GUI

[Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle freenet de>]

Am 2007-05-13 02:19:39, schrieb David Ne?as (Yeti):
> On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 02:52:06PM +0200, John Zoidberg wrote:
> > I would like to create a GUI with GTK where the language can be chosen
> > interactively in a "settings" menu.
> > I would like this to be independant of the machines local language settings.
>
> Each user (not machine) has separate language preferences
> and even individual applications can be run with different
> settings, e.g.
>
>   LC_ALL=cs_CZ myapp
>
> > How can I do that?
>
> If you want your application to disobey for whatever reason,
> set appropriate LC_* variables yourself -- either in
> a wrapper script or with g_setenv() before initializing
> Gtk+. The selector can be GUI or not, this does not matter.

Does
        setlocale("LC_ALL", "de_DE");

not work?

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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