On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Jon A. Cruz wrote:
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 21:38:20 -0800 From: Jon A. Cruz <jon@...18...> To: Alan Horkan <horkana@...44...> Cc: robgebhart@...1139..., Inkscape is a vector graphics editor inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] WEBFORM Language
On Jan 7, 2006, at 7:51 PM, Alan Horkan wrote:
I've seen this kind of request before but I continue to be a little surprised by how many people want to use programs in English without changing the the rest of their system.
If you read his request, you'll see that his Windows XP *is* in English, but it seems that Inkscape is showing up in German instead of English. I think this is just another case where GTK+ apps do not interoperate properly with Win32 locale settings. It's a known issue, and mainly works correctly for those who tweak settings (environment variables, etc) on their Windows systems to mirror Unix practices.
So it would appear that the user *did* change the rest of their system, but Inkscape didn't properly follow.
With the address ending in .ch I assummed he was in Switzerland. If his locale was set to en-CH it could have some interesting results.
I wouldn't be suprised if GTK wasn't very smart about locales like en-CH or other unusual combinations. I'm not sure why but I have a feeling the locales strings are crudely checked against a list of matching strings (xx-XX or xx_XX) rather than broken down into language (xx) and region (XX).
(I use en-IE but more often than not I get American spellings even when I'd expect things to fallback to British ones. I know things could/should be better but I've only ever had the patience to scratch the surface of it. Maybe someday I'll take a proverbial crowbar to glib and see if I can improve the fallbacks.)
In his post, he seems to have indicated a good reason to want to run Inkscape in English
To be clear I dont question many users have valid reasons for wanting to change the locale but given how often this problem comes up I wonder if there might be a better way to tackle it, but that isn't Inkscapes problem.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
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