At 12:19 AM 4/5/00 -0500, sam th wrote:
>Today, an interesting issue was brought up by the following bug report
>http://www.abisource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=809
>
>This bug reports that on a system with english as the language, but sweden
>as the locale, AbiWord runs in swedish. I think this is an example of us
>looking at the wrong component of the enviroment. for example, linux (at
>least rh 6.1) has an enviroment variable for language, and one for locale.
>AbiWord looks at the locale. If dealing with the language is workable on
>all platforms, then this bug suggests that we should change.
Justin/Henrik,
What do you think of this? It sounds plausible to me, but since you guys
originally coded the feature, I'll defer to your judgement.
Paul