[haiku-development] Re: B_TRANSLATE debugging info?

  • From: Oliver Tappe <zooey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2010 15:27:24 +0200

Hi Andreas,

On 2010-08-08 at 14:45:47 [+0200], Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber@xxxxxx> 
wrote:
> Am 29.07.2010 um 19:05 schrieb Humdinger:
> 
> > I think running
> > an app from commandline for debugging purposes is sufficiently
> > advanced
> > to make localizing these strings not necessary.
> > Also, if the output is used to report a bug, in order to get it in
> > English, the locale prefs would have to be switched to English.
> [...]
> > In the past it was argued that using a system remotely would then be
> > difficult. Not so, if there were a cli app to switch a system to
> > another language. The Locale prefs could be extended to accept
> > parameters to that purpose.
> 
> Does Haiku's localization system ignore LANG / LC_ALL environment
> settings?

Yes, it does. But since the default settings of those will soon follow the 
choices made in the Locale preflet, we could adjust the Locale roster to 
give the contents of LANG / LC_XXX precedence over the settings file.

cheers,
        Oliver

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