Jason Rumney wrote:
LENNART BORGMAN wrote:
Lennart Borgman wrote:
Regional settings:
Your local (location): Swedish
Language setting: x Western Europe and United State (default)
Control Panel - Regional Options - General.
Unfortunately th e Regional Options control panel changes between
every release of Windows, on XP there is no General tab, and none of
the options I see let you choose "Western Europe and United States
(default)".
In any case, that is not a language, the only thing I can think of
that fits that description is the default coding system (ie
Windows-1252).
Swedish is a language, not a location, so I think that is defining the
locale.
I think the problem is that the user interface for configuring this
has always been confusing in Windows, which I guess is why they keep
changing it with every release.
Yes, they are changing the look and feel of the control panel, but it
does not matter very much here. I think Emacs just uses the wrong API to
detect the language. Didn't I report this before - or was that for some
other software with the same problem? I know I have seen the same
problem in other GPL sw. Unfortunately I do not remember the API details
any more.
BTW I am just looking at this in XP on another pc. There I choose
Control Panel - Regional and Language Options
Sounds a bit better than the one for w2k IMO. There are 3 tabs:
Regional Options / Languages / Advanced
On the first tab "Regional Options" there is a value called "Location".
Seems like they have dropped "locale" and I guess that is a good choice.
On the second tab "Languages" you might expec to find language. Well,
you find half of it. There is the keyboard layout. Searching the Help I
found "on the 'Languages' tab, under 'Language used in menus and
dialogs', click the language you want.
But... it is not there. A bit further down on the page I see that one
needs something called Windows Multilingual User Interface Pack for this.
So that is why you could not find it in the control panel I guess. Quite
confusing to just remove it IMO. Probably a business solution for something.
Anyway, Emacs is choosing language with the wrong API. Unfortunately I
do not know more at the moment.
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