On Dec 3, 2007 9:26 AM, Chris Van Bael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 3, 2007 8:40 AM, Nicholas Riley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 03:18:14PM +0100, Chris Van Bael wrote: > > > I'm trying to port an python application which runs fine on Windows > > > and Linux to OSX. > > > However, it seems "lang = locale.getdefaultlocale()[0]" doesn't work. > > > I've searched quite some bit on the Internet and on this mailinglist, > > > and apparently it is a problem, but I haven't found any solution for > > > it. > > > > What are you trying to do with the locale information? Leopard's > > Terminal does have an option to 'set LANG environment variable on > > startup', which when checked does cause locale.getdefaultlocale() to > > work, but this is of no help in general. > > Well, > > it's for some educational games: Childsplay and Schoolsplay > (www.schoolsplay.org) > Based on the locale information, we choose different languages to use > in the strings and also different alphabet sound files. > We do have an commandline option to set the language, so "schoolsplay > --language=nl_BE" would give Dutch strings and sounds. > However the nicest option would be that it searched in the settings of the OS. > The program would be packed btw with py2app, so and end user wouldn't > have to use the Terminal (and install all Python dependencies).
Anybody any ideas on how to solve my problem? _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
