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

Marvin_Arnold wineforum-user at winehq.org
Tue Dec 1 12:19:37 CST 2009


Charles Davis wrote:
> 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
> 
> > 
> > James McKenzie
> > 
> > 
> 


Charles, that did the trick! (LANG=ja_JP.SJIS) My wine now talks Japanese!

Thank you very much! 
BŠLhFT„D~YH

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