Call for volunteers [was: Re: Localization]
Mikko Rasa
tdb at tdb.fi
Sat Oct 13 04:51:27 PDT 2012
On 13.10.2012 14:42, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote:
> however since we are not using a CMD launcher for example that sets
> the env variable and can be edited by the user,
> this hardcodes a translation based on a locale. how is the windows
> user going to switch translations?
> where is the menu entry that allows the user to pick a translation?
>
> i think that using a (global?) environment variable to control how a
> peace of software is translated is quite limiting.
> some osx user don't like entering stuff in terminals that much as
> well, how are they going to switch languages?
The standard practice is to pick up whatever language the OS is
configured to use. Presumably users prefer all of their programs to be
in the same language.
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Mikko
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