[Gambas-user] error in documentation

[Benoît Minisini]

> I think there is an error in
> http://gambasdoc.org/help/doc/locale
> 
> About the charset it says:
> "All characters that follows the xx_YY string are ignored by Gambas."
> 
> I had a big problem when I tried to run my prog in English, because with
>  "en_GB" or "en_US" a wrong charset was loaded. One runtime error after the
>  other with filenames that contained non-ASCII characters.
> 
> After searching and reading a long time, I didn't know what to do and
>  finally just tried the environment variable LANG = "en_GB.UTF-8" - and,
>  voila, now it works wonderful! Gambas doesn't ignore this.
> 
> Matti
> 

To be more precise: all characters that follows the xx_YY string are actually 
ignored by Gambas, but not by the system library. The system library uses the 
full $LANG, $LANGUAGE and $LC_* environment variables to decide which language 
and which charset to use. Gambas uses just the xx_YY part to find the 
translation file to use.

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini