windows issues with gettext

[Dirk Hohndel]

Henrik Brautaset Aronsen <subsurface at henrik.synth.no> writes:

> Den 16.10.12 06:35, skrev Miika Turkia:
>> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>>> My plan was to use g_win32_getlocale to switch to the language that the
>>> user is running Windows in. I looked around and almost no software I
>>> could get my hands on allows switching language independent from the OS.
>>> Sure, we could add a preference setting but that seems odd.
>> To me user preference for language selection sounds good. IIRC a
>> common way in Windows is to select the application language on install
>> time and be stuck with it. However, preferences is more user friendly
>> and should be easy enough for all users. Environment variables are
>> something an average user won't be comfortable with, especially on
>> Windows.
>
> There should be no need to tweak environment variables when 2.1 is out. 
> Subsurface should Just Work™ by selecting the OS default language.
>
> Later on we could add a language preference dialog is the demand is there.

That's what I am leaning towards as well. I think the majority of
"average users" will be happy to have the program in the same language
as their OS install. If we do get requests to be able to override that
we can always address this for a 2.2 release.

/D