Re: [Wireshark-dev] On which platforms is there a need for Wireshark to have a Language preference?

2014-11-25 Thread Peter Wu
*sigh* this was supposed to be off-list. On Tuesday 25 November 2014 00:36:13 Peter Wu wrote: On Monday 24 November 2014 23:45:11 Andreas Sikkema wrote: Here's an example, a forum that I use quite frequently. When I set Firefox to Dutch, The links for Login and Registration get translated to

Re: [Wireshark-dev] On which platforms is there a need for Wireshark to have a Language preference?

2014-11-25 Thread Anders Broman
-Original Message- From: wireshark-dev-boun...@wireshark.org [mailto:wireshark-dev-boun...@wireshark.org] On Behalf Of Peter Wu Sent: den 25 november 2014 09:43 To: Andreas Sikkema Cc: wireshark-dev@wireshark.org Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] On which platforms is there a need for

Re: [Wireshark-dev] On which platforms is there a need for Wireshark to have a Language preference?

2014-11-24 Thread Andreas Sikkema
I know it's a bit late, but I felt I had a reasonable use-case: On 06/11/14 19:54 , Guy Harris wrote: So presumably many of the non-native-English users you know run in mixed mode. Why do they do that? For years I was forced by corporate IT to use the Dutch version of Windows. It was

Re: [Wireshark-dev] On which platforms is there a need for Wireshark to have a Language preference?

2014-11-24 Thread Peter Wu
On Monday 24 November 2014 23:45:11 Andreas Sikkema wrote: Here's an example, a forum that I use quite frequently. When I set Firefox to Dutch, The links for Login and Registration get translated to Aanmelden and Registreren. In my mind, Aanmelden and Registreren both mean Registration. So now

Re: [Wireshark-dev] On which platforms is there a need for Wireshark to have a Language preference?

2014-11-10 Thread Jeff Morriss
On 11/07/14 11:51, Guy Harris wrote: On Nov 7, 2014, at 5:30 AM, Fulko Hew fulko@gmail.com wrote: Here's my take on the subject (not that it happens often) ... Sometimes I may find myself having to use someone else's computer in some other country. That machine has been set to the local

Re: [Wireshark-dev] On which platforms is there a need for Wireshark to have a Language preference?

2014-11-09 Thread Martin Kaiser
Thus wrote Guy Harris (g...@alum.mit.edu): In the best of all possible worlds, the only people who would have a reason to use something other than the system language would be people testing translations or reproducing bugs and testing fixes and that's definitely something that we'll have to

Re: [Wireshark-dev] On which platforms is there a need for Wireshark to have a Language preference?

2014-11-07 Thread Fulko Hew
On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Guy Harris g...@alum.mit.edu wrote: ... snip ... I'm *really* trying to understand the reasons why an additional select the language option, over and above a system select the language option, is useful, and whether it's useful in *all* environments or only

Re: [Wireshark-dev] On which platforms is there a need for Wireshark to have a Language preference?

2014-11-07 Thread Guy Harris
On Nov 6, 2014, at 10:59 PM, Michal Labedzki michal.labed...@tieto.com wrote: Ability to change language is needed. But the real question is those names should be translated or not. For example KDE do that. Do you mean that all the languages' names are translated into the *current* language?

Re: [Wireshark-dev] On which platforms is there a need for Wireshark to have a Language preference?

2014-11-07 Thread Guy Harris
On Nov 7, 2014, at 5:30 AM, Fulko Hew fulko@gmail.com wrote: Here's my take on the subject (not that it happens often) ... Sometimes I may find myself having to use someone else's computer in some other country. That machine has been set to the local country and language and keyboard.

Re: [Wireshark-dev] On which platforms is there a need for Wireshark to have a Language preference?

2014-11-07 Thread Alexis La Goutte
On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Guy Harris g...@alum.mit.edu wrote: On Nov 6, 2014, at 10:59 PM, Michal Labedzki michal.labed...@tieto.com wrote: Ability to change language is needed. But the real question is those names should be translated or not. For example KDE do that. Do you mean

Re: [Wireshark-dev] On which platforms is there a need for Wireshark to have a Language preference?

2014-11-07 Thread Guy Harris
On Nov 7, 2014, at 12:23 PM, Guy Harris g...@alum.mit.edu wrote: On Nov 7, 2014, at 12:10 PM, Alexis La Goutte alexis.lagou...@gmail.com wrote: You need to fix this issue... actually, it is possible to translate the list of language... Is there any good reason why having a list of

Re: [Wireshark-dev] On which platforms is there a need for Wireshark to have a Language preference?

2014-11-07 Thread Guy Harris
On Nov 7, 2014, at 12:10 PM, Alexis La Goutte alexis.lagou...@gmail.com wrote: You need to fix this issue... actually, it is possible to translate the list of language... Is there any good reason why having a list of language that, for example, goes English French

Re: [Wireshark-dev] On which platforms is there a need for Wireshark to have a Language preference?

2014-11-06 Thread Alexis La Goutte
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 7:00 PM, Pascal Quantin pascal.quan...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-11-05 18:31 GMT+01:00 Guy Harris g...@alum.mit.edu: On Nov 5, 2014, at 2:30 AM, Pascal Quantin pascal.quan...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-11-05 11:12 GMT+01:00 Michal Labedzki michal.labed...@tieto.com:

Re: [Wireshark-dev] On which platforms is there a need for Wireshark to have a Language preference?

2014-11-06 Thread Michal Labedzki
In what ways is it used that its disappearance would be a big loss rather than, at most, a minor loss? For me: big loss How to inform user that Wireshark support some translations if you remove user choose of it? It will be big problem for users. I check some applications: assistant,

Re: [Wireshark-dev] On which platforms is there a need for Wireshark to have a Language preference?

2014-11-06 Thread Michal Orynicz
Hi, I am also in favor of letting the user decide about language used on runtime. Let the default language set be the system language. One use case that is probably not so rare, is that You have a system language that is not supported yet by Wireshark. User should be able to choose from available

Re: [Wireshark-dev] On which platforms is there a need for Wireshark to have a Language preference?

2014-11-06 Thread Guy Harris
On Nov 6, 2014, at 1:32 AM, Alexis La Goutte alexis.lagou...@gmail.com wrote: Like other no English people, i want to have the choose to select the language on Gui. For me, it is a not a problem to have a option to choose the language (there is a lot of option/preference on Wireshark...)

Re: [Wireshark-dev] On which platforms is there a need for Wireshark to have a Language preference?

2014-11-06 Thread Guy Harris
On Nov 6, 2014, at 1:35 AM, Michal Labedzki michal.labed...@tieto.com wrote: In what ways is it used that its disappearance would be a big loss rather than, at most, a minor loss? For me: big loss How to inform user that Wireshark support some translations if you remove user choose of

Re: [Wireshark-dev] On which platforms is there a need for Wireshark to have a Language preference?

2014-11-06 Thread Ed Beroset
Guy Harris wrote: but in home I want to use Italian Wireshark and sometimes Polish/English. Set language in GUI is really helpful. Is the ability to set the language on a *per-application* basis, rather than on a system-wide basis, really helpful to very many users? It doesn't seem so to me,

Re: [Wireshark-dev] On which platforms is there a need for Wireshark to have a Language preference?

2014-11-06 Thread Michal Labedzki
I have LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF8, but KDE and Firefox set to Polish. So Wireshark needs to be set to Polish too. So some applications I have in Polish, other in English. I think it is common case if you are not native English. By the way Guy, are you native English? (what languages do you know?) There is

Re: [Wireshark-dev] On which platforms is there a need for Wireshark to have a Language preference?

2014-11-06 Thread Alexis La Goutte
Hi Guy, What the problem to have a setting for select language ? Regards, ___ Sent via:Wireshark-dev mailing list wireshark-dev@wireshark.org Archives:http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe:

Re: [Wireshark-dev] On which platforms is there a need for Wireshark to have a Language preference?

2014-11-06 Thread Guy Harris
On Nov 6, 2014, at 5:58 AM, Alexis La Goutte alexis.lagou...@gmail.com wrote: What the problem to have a setting for select language ? It's One More Setting, and clutters the preferences GUI. If the vast majority of users would always use their system-wide language setting, with the users

Re: [Wireshark-dev] On which platforms is there a need for Wireshark to have a Language preference?

2014-11-06 Thread Guy Harris
On Nov 6, 2014, at 3:57 AM, Michal Labedzki michal.labed...@tieto.com wrote: I have LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF8, but KDE and Firefox set to Polish. So Wireshark needs to be set to Polish too. So some applications I have in Polish, other in English. So why do you work in a mixed mode like that? I

Re: [Wireshark-dev] On which platforms is there a need for Wireshark to have a Language preference?

2014-11-06 Thread Guy Harris
On Nov 6, 2014, at 11:04 AM, Pascal Quantin pascal.quan...@gmail.com wrote: And as I said in an earlier email, letting a user manually select the language in an application is common practice on Windows. So what are some examples of applications that support this?

Re: [Wireshark-dev] On which platforms is there a need for Wireshark to have a Language preference?

2014-11-06 Thread Tyson Key
Hi Guy, Right now, iTunes, SoftMaker Office, Shareaza, RealPlayer, and Google Chrome are the most apparent examples (from memory) of relatively-popular applications for Windows that expose a preference in their configuration GUIs, to support changing the program language on-the-fly. I'm sure

Re: [Wireshark-dev] On which platforms is there a need for Wireshark to have a Language preference?

2014-11-06 Thread Pascal Quantin
2014-11-06 20:33 GMT+01:00 Guy Harris g...@alum.mit.edu: On Nov 6, 2014, at 11:04 AM, Pascal Quantin pascal.quan...@gmail.com wrote: And as I said in an earlier email, letting a user manually select the language in an application is common practice on Windows. So what are some examples

Re: [Wireshark-dev] On which platforms is there a need for Wireshark to have a Language preference?

2014-11-06 Thread Guy Harris
On Nov 6, 2014, at 11:44 AM, Pascal Quantin pascal.quan...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-11-06 20:33 GMT+01:00 Guy Harris g...@alum.mit.edu: On Nov 6, 2014, at 11:04 AM, Pascal Quantin pascal.quan...@gmail.com wrote: And as I said in an earlier email, letting a user manually select the language

Re: [Wireshark-dev] On which platforms is there a need for Wireshark to have a Language preference?

2014-11-06 Thread Pascal Quantin
2014-11-06 21:58 GMT+01:00 Guy Harris g...@alum.mit.edu: On Nov 6, 2014, at 11:44 AM, Pascal Quantin pascal.quan...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-11-06 20:33 GMT+01:00 Guy Harris g...@alum.mit.edu: On Nov 6, 2014, at 11:04 AM, Pascal Quantin pascal.quan...@gmail.com wrote: And as I said in

Re: [Wireshark-dev] On which platforms is there a need for Wireshark to have a Language preference?

2014-11-06 Thread Guy Harris
On Nov 6, 2014, at 2:47 PM, Pascal Quantin pascal.quan...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-11-06 21:58 GMT+01:00 Guy Harris g...@alum.mit.edu: I'm *really* trying to understand the reasons why an additional select the language option, over and above a system select the language option, is useful,

Re: [Wireshark-dev] On which platforms is there a need for Wireshark to have a Language preference?

2014-11-06 Thread Guy Harris
On Nov 6, 2014, at 10:49 AM, Guy Harris g...@alum.mit.edu wrote: If the vast majority of users would always use their system-wide language setting, with the users who don't being, for example, developers working on translations, and there's a way to, for example, override it with an

Re: [Wireshark-dev] On which platforms is there a need for Wireshark to have a Language preference?

2014-11-06 Thread Michal Labedzki
Ability to change language is needed. But the real question is those names should be translated or not. For example KDE do that. KDE also provide two options: System language (Polish); No language (standard), where second one I assume is language in C++ code. If names will be translated - how to

Re: [Wireshark-dev] On which platforms is there a need for Wireshark to have a Language preference?

2014-11-05 Thread Dario Lombardo
Hi Guy The answer is yes. I live in italy, but I use linux in english. I switch to en or it for the specific purpose of the moment. With auto-detect I could't do that. For my daily use I switch to EN. To develop/test wireshark italian translation I switch to IT. I don't know if this scenario

Re: [Wireshark-dev] On which platforms is there a need for Wireshark to have a Language preference?

2014-11-05 Thread Bálint Réczey
Hi Dario, 2014-11-05 9:31 GMT+01:00 Dario Lombardo dario.lombardo...@gmail.com: Hi Guy The answer is yes. I live in italy, but I use linux in english. I switch to en or it for the specific purpose of the moment. With auto-detect I could't do that. For my daily use I switch to EN. To

Re: [Wireshark-dev] On which platforms is there a need for Wireshark to have a Language preference?

2014-11-05 Thread Dario Lombardo
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Bálint Réczey bal...@balintreczey.hu wrote: Please run LC_ALL=it_IT wireshark instead of asking the project to keep the language-switching feature. Thanks for your suggestion. ___ Sent

Re: [Wireshark-dev] On which platforms is there a need for Wireshark to have a Language preference?

2014-11-05 Thread Michal Labedzki
Please run LC_ALL=it_IT wireshark Does it work on Windows? I do not remember to know anyone GUI application without option to change language by GUI. Do you know how to change locale after running application? (QEvent::LocaleChange ?) If this is not possible then dynamic change application

Re: [Wireshark-dev] On which platforms is there a need for Wireshark to have a Language preference?

2014-11-05 Thread Pascal Quantin
2014-11-05 11:12 GMT+01:00 Michal Labedzki michal.labed...@tieto.com: Please run LC_ALL=it_IT wireshark Does it work on Windows? I do not remember to know anyone GUI application without option to change language by GUI. Do you know how to change locale after running application?

Re: [Wireshark-dev] On which platforms is there a need for Wireshark to have a Language preference?

2014-11-05 Thread Bálint Réczey
Hi Pascal, 2014-11-05 11:30 GMT+01:00 Pascal Quantin pascal.quan...@gmail.com: 2014-11-05 11:12 GMT+01:00 Michal Labedzki michal.labed...@tieto.com: Please run LC_ALL=it_IT wireshark Does it work on Windows? I do not remember to know anyone GUI application without option to change

Re: [Wireshark-dev] On which platforms is there a need for Wireshark to have a Language preference?

2014-11-05 Thread Guy Harris
On Nov 5, 2014, at 2:30 AM, Pascal Quantin pascal.quan...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-11-05 11:12 GMT+01:00 Michal Labedzki michal.labed...@tieto.com: Please run LC_ALL=it_IT wireshark Does it work on Windows? I do not remember to know anyone GUI application without option to change language by

Re: [Wireshark-dev] On which platforms is there a need for Wireshark to have a Language preference?

2014-11-05 Thread Guy Harris
On Nov 5, 2014, at 2:12 AM, Michal Labedzki michal.labed...@tieto.com wrote: Please run LC_ALL=it_IT wireshark Does it work on Windows? I do not remember to know anyone GUI application without option to change language by GUI. So how do developers on Windows who have their system

Re: [Wireshark-dev] On which platforms is there a need for Wireshark to have a Language preference?

2014-11-05 Thread Pascal Quantin
2014-11-05 18:31 GMT+01:00 Guy Harris g...@alum.mit.edu: On Nov 5, 2014, at 2:30 AM, Pascal Quantin pascal.quan...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-11-05 11:12 GMT+01:00 Michal Labedzki michal.labed...@tieto.com: Please run LC_ALL=it_IT wireshark Does it work on Windows? I do not remember to

[Wireshark-dev] On which platforms is there a need for Wireshark to have a Language preference?

2014-11-04 Thread Guy Harris
I.e., are there reasons, on any platforms, to set the Language preference to anything other than Auto-Detect? As far as I know, on all supported platforms (Windows, OS X, UN*Xes other than OS X) the Qt system locale gets the locale information from the appropriate place on the OS. Is there