[Gambas-user] Need help on format$ function

[Benoit Minisini]

On Thursday 15 December 2005 16:50, ron wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 December 2005 18:12, Benoit Minisini wrote:
> > On Wednesday 14 December 2005 17:58, amaiuri at ...1274... wrote:
> > > ----------- Mensaje Original --------------
> >
> > [...]
> > LANG=POSIX
> > LC_CTYPE=es_VE.UTF-8
> > [...]
> >
> > Your locale environment variables are not set to spanish, except the
> > LC_CTYPE one. I think none of your application are displayed in
> > spanish...
> >
> > Please check the configuration of your system, so that LANG is spanish,
> > as the LC_* variables.
> >
> > Regards,
>
> I just checked in my system SuSE 9.2, installed as 'en_US' in the
> Netherlands.
>
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and should be for you LANG=es_VE.UTF-8
>
> In Yast goto System>/etc/sysconfig Editor:
> Go in tree on the left to System>Environment>Language, for my system:
>
> entry		value
> ----------------------------
> RC_LANG		en_US.UTF-8
> RC_LC_ALL	{blank}
> MESSAGES	{blank}
> CTYPE		{blank}
> ROOT_USES_LANG	ctype
>
> In the environment I do not have all of the LC_* set
> Only the LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>
> Be carefull with SuSE for the language and country settings.
>
> In Yast there is a icon telling you 'Choose Language' to.
> This sets the 'country' and as result the most common language spoken
> there. I'm also afraid SuSE's country_language setting is not the same as
> the intension of the standard definition for these.
>
> I found in the past 'en_GB' and 'en_UK' with SuSE and KDE for
> English in Great Brittan, also known as United Kingdom, but
> as far I found 'en_UK' is 'English in Ukraine', bit strange.
> Some of the KDE Translators are using en_UK for United Kingdom,
> others using 'en_GB' and SuSE is using en_GB for GreatBrittan.
>
> The Clock and Time settings you choose also a country.
> I'm afraid this one is also changing the country part of the language.
> The order of setting the Clock/Time and Language can be importand.
>
> The good one should be visible in the environment with evv > myenv.txt
> These are used with gambas.
>

Gambas needs LANG being set, and eventually LANGUAGE (a list of possible 
values of LANG, in preference order).

But the glibc library needs LC_* and he corresponding locale files to work 
correctly with dates, currency... For example, on Mandriva, if I want to be 
able to display correctly spanish dates, I have to install spanish locales.

Regards,

-- 
Benoit Minisini