Self-contained executable for any Linux x86_64 distribution

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Mar 3, 2013, at 10:56 AM, Miika Turkia wrote:
>> 
>> Never having used one of the translations myself I must admit that
>> the completely "normal" subsurface (not the self-contained version)
>> I have on my computer does not seem to react on setting LANG=...
>> either - but without any error message.
>> 
>> What is the "officially supported" method of choosing the language
>> for within subsurface, anyway?

The official way is not to do anything at all - Subsurface is supposed to
run in the language in which your OS is running.

There are some people who have long requested a way to manually
select the language and so far I have resisted that as I think it opens
a whole other can of worms...

>> I tried invoking
>>  LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 subsurface
>> but as said, still got the english interface.
> 
> There is no instructions on selecting language on the user manual (at
> least my grep didn't give any results).

As I said, we don't discuss this in the manual as it should be automatic.
If someone wants to write the documentation to cover this on Linux (all
flavors as different flavors do it differently), Mac and Windows, be my
guest.

> Following seems to give me
> german:
> LANGUAGE=de ./subsurface
> 
> Buttons and some titles come from the GUI language, though (still in
> English for me).

And that is precisely the reason why I don't want to select the language
from within Subsurface. It's non-trivial to get the OS to show you everything
in your language if that isn't the language the OS is running in. On some
OSs it appears to be entirely impossible to do that.

/D


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