Jason Rumney wrote:
I am sorry, but I do not at all understand what you mean. What do you
mean with that "I don't think we should limit ourselves to the
languages that Windows has been translated to"? Have we discussed
that at all? Is not this discussion about how to choose the correct
language for text to be shown inside Emacs (in this case the tutorial
of couse)?
The function you are suggesting we use returns the language used by
Windows itself for its UI. If we use that function to determine the
user's language preference, we (1) limit the language selection to
languages that Windows has been localized in, and (2) the language
cannot be changed by the user after installation except in Vista and
installations of Windows 2000/XP that Microsoft makes available only
to large multinational corporations.
It would be very good if we continued this discussion. It may not
matter very much for those using an English keyboard layout, but it
definitively does if you use for example a Swedish keyboard layout.
I don't see why keyboard layout has anything to do with it. The
language that Emacs (and Gimp) uses is determined by the user's locale
settings, not by the keyboard layout.
Thanks, you got me there. You are right. I was somehow unconscious
assuming that the keyboard layout and the language we choosed where
related, but they are not of course.
So I am convinced. It is better to leave it as it is now. And GIMP is
correct to regarding the language choice.
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