[Gambas-user] Problems in translation

[Benoit Minisini]

On Friday 25 March 2005 18:38, ulisse wrote:
> I started a couple of weeks ago developing an application with Gambas and
> the tool is so good that after some days I was in production.
>
> Now... I'm facing the following issue.
>
> I started developing it in italian but made the project translatable.
>
> I added english (both "common" and "en_US"). Anyway I'm not able to start
> it in the US language even setting lang on bash. I succeded only starting
> from the development environment of gambas.

You must set LANG and LANGUAGES, if your system uses the LANGUAGES variable.

>
> So, probably I don't understand the dinamic.
>
> 1) Is the language inserted in the executable file? 

Yes it is. The '.mo' translation file is installed in /tmp when you launch the 
program.

> Or have I to make a 
> package?
>
> 2) In add, how can I switch during runtime the language?

System.Language = "..." to sets the LANG environment variable AND to switch 
the translation file.

But you cannot use a language with Gambas if the localization files (those 
used by LC_* variables) are not installed. It is a glibc requirement.

Regards,

-- 
Benoit Minisini
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