Subject: Re: Ispell
From: Mike Nordell (tamlin@algonet.se)
Date: Wed Jun 13 2001 - 15:20:20 CDT
Dom Lachowicz wrote:
[user lang. pref's overriding sys. pref's]
>
> We actually do support this on Unix, and I figure that it's *trivial* to
> do on Win32 or whatever your preferred platform is.
Should this really be a _platform_ pref (as in non-XP)? Shouldn't this
behavior be the same for all platforms? Perhaps I'm just mixing up levels of
abstraction?
> On Unix, we getenv("LANG"), which can be en-US, de-DE, etc... My impl
probably
> isn't the best, but it sure does work. See src/wp/ap/unix/ap_UnixFrame.cpp
> around line 130.
Just to put the icing on the cake, would it make sense to have two functions
"get_system_language()" and "get_user_language()"? Perhaps they should be
defined to return a platform-dependent data type, I don't know, but the
names would still return the same data-of-interest that would be different
data for different platforms? Just brainstorming... I might be completely
wrong.
> Since we spell-check based on our "lang" property now in *both* the ispell
and
> pspell builds, setting "lang" to sv-SE will give you the desired effect.
That wasn't my concern at all. _How_ we do [aipx]spell is rather unimportant
I believe. My concern was that the "default language" property of the
document would be sys. default, but if I with my user defaults overrides it
a new doc would get _my_ requested locale, not the _sys_ requested locale.
> Please implement something like this for Win32 if at all possible.
I'd have a look at it if we reached an agreement. I believe it's a problem
to be solved at a higher level of abstraction. (once again I might be wrong)
/Mike
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