Wine and locales

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"Alexandre Julliard" <julliard at winehq.org> wrote:

> > We should not complicate things, especially since it's not clear at all
> > what APIs are affected by system/user locale differences.
> 
> But the fact is that there are two different locales that can be
> configured independently on Windows, and some users need that
> ability. So how do you propose to solve the issue?
> 
> We could of course make it configurable in the config file instead,
> but it seems to me that reusing the existing Unix setup is better than
> requiring users to configure the same thing in two different places.

I like the idea of moving that setting to the config file. We can't
use existing unix locale settings except LC_ALL and LANG because
every user's system might have (and does have) very different locale
settings, we can't assume that everyone out there configures locale
in the same way.

-- 
Dmitry.