On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 12:28:58AM +0200, Holger wrote
> Unfortunately, there is no gtk_set_locale that takes an argument and also
> the hack above doesn't influence what it thinks is the current locale
> setting. InitGTK and thus gtk_set_locale is called much later and should
> have used Italian in the above example.
The comments in GTK+ 2 manual may sched some light on this:
If you are calling this function because you changed the locale
after GTK+ is was initialized, then calling this function may
help a bit. (Note, however, that changing the locale after GTK+
is initialized may produce inconsistent results and is not
really supported.)
Paragraph number two is especially interesting. It looks like we can
forget about runtime changes of the locale.