[Gambas-user] error in documentation

[Matti]

Ah, I understand. Thanks.
But this info in the doc would help beginners like me.
Matti


Benoît Minisini schrieb:
>> 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,
>