On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 15:31, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > Henry Spencer wrote: > > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > > setenv LANG de_DE.iso-8859-1@euro > > > setenv LANG DE_de.ISO-8859-1@euro > > > setenv LANG de_DE.Iso-8859-1@EURO > > > Do you think an average user can guess which one of these he has to > > > type? No GUI available! > > > > If the user has to *type* one of those, the system is broken. > > > > You can write a menu system, which will list the legitimate choices and > > ask him which one he wants, in twenty lines of shell script. It will run > > on any ASCII terminal. There is no need to have X and Tcl/Tk to write > > interfaces that are more novice-friendly than setenv. > > Nice idea. However, that this menu system shell script still has to be > made is enough proof that, in practice, people will use setenv. I often > use "env LANG=<locale> gvim <arguments>" to test message translations. > Try "locale -a". It'll give you a list of valid locales, and aliases. It reads its contents from /etc/locale.aliases Over on debian-devel, I've been proposing changing the locale-gen cmd. in Debian (and similar in other distributions...) to automagically edit locale.aliases to include only aliases to locales that are present on the system (e.g. in /usr/lib/locale). Then "locale -a" would give you
de_DE.UTF-8@euro german fr_FR.UTF-8@euro french .. env LANG=french gvim <args> would work ... In principle, I agree though, case sensitive; work should be aimed at making a GUI simple to use, and the CLI consistent and simple. > -- > hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict: > 33. You name your children Eudora, Mozilla and Dotcom. s > > /// Bram Moolenaar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.moolenaar.net \\\ > ((( Creator of Vim -- http://vim.sf.net -- ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim ))) > \\\ Help me helping AIDS orphans in Uganda - http://iccf-holland.org /// > -- > Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/ > > -- Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
