Re: Languages general question

[Björn Fischer]

> If you look over the recent threads, you'll see that in linux you need
> support from glibc for the language you want. Since you're in windows -
> it doesn't work yet. That's the topmost point on my Pingus ToDo, but
> since it requires working with Windows/Visual Studio, my motivation is
> pretty low. :-(

Alright, I digged myself a little bit through the gettext manual. I now 
know how to compile the .po-files to .mo files. I linked pingus against 
a win32 gettext library (sources from 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gettext). An now I thought just putting 
the de.mo file into <basedir>/../../locale and setting a LANG=de_DE 
environment variable would make my pingus german, but it did't :-((( 
Arlight, I could have guessed that...

The main Problem for me is right now, that setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, "") 
still fails. I'm afraid I don't have any Idea what this function call is 
good for. Even having a look at the latter threads about that problem 
and asking the MSDN docu didn't give me more info...
Is it necessary for gettext to have this LC_MESSAGES stuff done? Or is 
it some linux specific thing we can #ifdef for win32?

Thanx for some little hints :-)

Greetings

Björn