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