Angus Leeming wrote: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> Angus> ...is used, of course, to control l10n of the UI. (How about >> Angus> that for jargon!) Trouble is, it's not very intuitive to >> Angus> Windows users. I wonder if it would not be good to have a >> Angus> LyXRC::ui_language variable and get LyX to set LANG if it isn't >> Angus> empty: >> >> What we should really do is query the language from windows and just >> use that. That cannot be so difficult to achieve... > > Hmmm. Having tried out my idea (patch attached) I think you're right. The > patch has no effect because gettext_init is called so early --- way > before the lyxrc files are parsed. > >> The main problem of course is that windows has different names for >> these locales. Is locale.alias installed currently in the locale/ >> directory? Would that help to have it? > > $ ls /mnt/windowsC/Program\ Files/LyX/Resources/locale > da de es eu fi fr it locale.alias nl nn no pl ro ru sk sl > tr > > I attach this file also. How is it meant to be used? > >> [later...] >> >> I searched the web to find references on using gettext with win32 api, >> and I have to say I found nothing. Aren't there other unix apps that >> use gettext and got ported to windows? > > You didn't look in the right place, obviously. google for "gettext > windows": > > http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/install.html#Native-language_support_
However, see also the message I've just posted to the MinSYS list: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.msys/2611 -- Angus
