[Gambas-user] How to force Gambas to use a specific language?

[Benoît Minisini]

> Hi all,
> I just wanted to give you my 2 cents on the locales and Gambas.
> Having to manualy install into the system the locales that a gambas
> application supports in order to use them it's sort of weird...
> If the strings for a given language are there (and programmatically the
> "System.Language" is set to use them), why can't the Gambas app just use
> them?
> 

It's not me, but the glibc that requires that. No idea why. If someone can 
find a way to use the translation API of the glibc without having to install 
the corresponding locale files, it will be a great help for everyone.

> On the other hand even if the system locale is really necessary in order
> to use a particular translation, it would be nice if the Gambas
> application packager could lookup the current available translations and
> add the corresponding system locales packages to the generated
> application package as a "suggested" ones.

Indeed. The problem is that all locale packages are different between 
distributions, and the way they are named too. I must create a list of all 
locale packages for each language, and each distributions supported by the IDE 
(Mandriva, SuSE, Fedora, Ubuntu, Slackware). It is an huge job I cannot make 
alone!

Regards,

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Benoît Minisini