Re: Selecting the right locale under window

From: Ramón Flores (fa2ramon@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Oct 24 2002 - 06:27:03 EDT

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     --- Jordi Mas <jmas@softcatala.org> escreveu: > Hi
    guys,
    >
    > Right now it seems that we call the GetLocale win32
    > API function to get the
    > user's locale. As far as I know, under win32 the
    > locale selection is done
    > automatically based on this Windows call.
    >
    > This is a problem for locales that we support that
    > Windows does not support,
    > because you really cannot activate them. For
    > example, we support Esperato, but
    > since Windows does not have locale you are unable to
    > activate the Esperanto
    > translation of Abiword.
    >
    > Am I correct? If this is correct, we should have an
    > option in the Preferences
    > that allows the user to overwrite the default
    > Windows locale and select from
    > the list of ours.

    This feature have been previously asked, and there is
    a
    rfe (Bug#: 3233):

    http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3233

    Cheers
        Ramon

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