Re: Force english locale on Win32

[Alexander Shaduri <ashaduri gmail com>]

On Sun, 07 Jun 2009 14:10:47 +0400
Саша Иваненко <kitovyj mail ru> wrote:

> I use gtkmm for my GUI app on Win32 XP platform. Native locale for my system is russian. Problem is I cant force gtkmm to speak english! I have searched various forums, but nothing helps. I tried to sel locale at program startup using these functions:
> 
> putenv("LANG=en_US.UTF8");
> putenv("LANGUAGE=en_US"); 
> putenv("LC_ALL=en_US");
> setlocale(LC_ALL, "C");
> 
> But gtkmm still print russian text on the standard dialog buttons etcetera.
> Please help to force english locale to gtkmm. 

Try passing false as a set_locale parameter to Gtk::Main(), see
http://gtkmm.org/docs/gtkmm-2.4/docs/reference/html/classGtk_1_1Main.html

AFAIK, the LANG variables don't have any effect in win32.

Alexander