[PATCH] kernel32: Respect the LANG environment variable on Mac OS.

Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry at codeweavers.com
Thu Nov 26 00:58:00 CST 2009


"Ken Thomases" <ken at codeweavers.com> wrote:

> If you as a user want to override the language that Wine displays,
> you can set LC_MESSAGES in your environment rather than LANG.
> Setting LC_ALL would achieve that, plus override the various other
> locale categories.  Set LANG is the wrong approach, in my opinion.

In the most cases what user wants is not just change the UI language
(which setting the LC_MESSAGES does) but also change the locale (i.e.
input/output code page), that's where LANG should be used. LC_MESSAGES
hack adds more confusion IMO than really helps.

-- 
Dmitry.



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