On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 12:42:58PM +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Christian Weisgerber:
>
> > Marc Espie:
> >
> > > g_setenv ("LANGUAGE", language, TRUE);
> > > setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
> >
> > From the gettext manual:
> > Note: The variable LANGUAGE is ignored if the locale is set to 'C'. In
> > other words, you have to first enable localization, by setting LANG (or
> > LC_ALL) to a value other than 'C', before you can use a language
> > priority list through the LANGUAGE variable.
>
> And that is exactly what I observe with gimp after setting the
> language to French in the Preferences dialog.
>
> If I set any of the locale-related environment variables LC_ALL,
> LC_MESSAGES, or LANG to _any_ value, gimp will start up in French.
> Otherwise it will come up in English.
>
> The "bug" here is that gimp's authors assume that the program will
> run with locale settings in the environment. I think typical Linux
> distributions have had such a default for a long time.
Oh, drat, and I only have LC_CTYPE set, because everything else is
a no-op for me.
Thanks for the clarification
