[Wine] How to achieve Japanese localization on Mac OSX?

Charles Davis cdavis at mymail.mines.edu
Mon Nov 30 16:01:02 CST 2009


James McKenzie wrote:
> vitamin wrote:
>> James McKenzie wrote:
>>   
>>> I do think this is doable, but the appropriate variables have to be set before running Wine, just like you do in Linux (or any other UNIX for that matter).
>>>     
>> No, according to this code: http://source.winehq.org/source/dlls/kernel32/locale.c#L2943
>>
>> It resets "LANG" environment variable with the locale it got from the system. Also see this message from wine-devel: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2009-November/080062.html
>>   
> Hmmm.  The message seems to imply that using LC_MESSAGES would work. 
> However, it did not.  I'll read more on the thread in Wine-devel.
What did you use? If you tacked on a .utf8, then of course it didn't
work! On Mac OS, you have to put a dash between the "UTF" and the "8":
ja_JP.UTF-8. (Or you can type ja_JP.utf-8.) And if you want Shift-JIS,
then you need to tack on a .SJIS: ja_JP.SJIS.

Chip
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