language selection in Windows

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Tue Jun 18 07:29:03 PDT 2013


On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 16:14 +0300, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote:
> On 16 June 2013 12:55, Krzysztof Arentowicz <karent.bug at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was contacted by a user of Subsurface 3.1 who experienced a problem
> > with language selection.
> > He's running Windows 7x64 (Polish) on two of his machines, one
> > Professional and one Home Premium. On the first one Subsurface correctly
> > installed in Polish, on Home Premium it was in English.
> > Of course he was unable to change the language.
> >
> > Setting language based on OS setting is fine in Linux but in Windows,
> > where the user is most often tied to a single OS language version, it is
> > generally expected by users to be able to able to choose language inside
> > a given application.
> >
> > I think this would be sensible to include such functionality, at least
> > in Windows version.
> >
> > Speaking from my own experience, I am also affected by this as one of my
> > laptops is provided by my employer with English Windows version and I am
> > unable to switch Subsurface to use my native language on that machine,
> > even though it is supported.
> >
> 
> we can expose a --lang=xx_XX command line argument for Windows, where
> xx_XX is one of the bundled languages.
> here is a patch proposal, but i cannot test it as currently i cannot
> compile on any OS. patch changes the initialization order in main.c,
> so i doubt i got that right blindly.
> 
> feel free to compile, modify, test, sign-off by yourself giving credit or not.
> 
> later the NSIS installer can have the list of available languages,
> where selection is made by the user and the .exe shortcuts can have
> the argument included. the list part i do not know how to do,
> honestly.

I don't think I like this. Command line arguments in general are not
user friendly at all. I'd much rather allow people to select the
language from the preferences and then store that selection in the
settings.

/D



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