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Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 22:11:45 +0100
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Subject: Re: suggestion (was Re: 1.7.7: Localization does not follow the      language of the OS)
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On Jan 12 18:47, cornwarecjp AT lavabit DOT com wrote:
> > The official way to set the locale is to use the locale(1) tool, see the
> > User's Guide http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#locale
> >
> >   export LANG=`locale -u`       setenv LANG `locale -u`
> >   export LANG=`locale -s`       setenv LANG `locale -s`
> >
> > or better
> >
> >   export LANG=`locale -uU`      setenv LANG `locale -uU`
> >   export LANG=`locale -sU       setenv LANG `locale -sU`
> 
> Thanks for this suggestion. I tested the locale command, and it does
> what you describe.
> 
> Unfortunately, the people who download my application usually don't have
> Cygwin, so I'll have to distribute locale.exe with my application. Also,
> this trick will add extra complexity to my software, which is (AFAIK) not
> necessary on other UNIX platforms.
> 
> Despite these disadvantages, I think this is a useful solution for me.
> locale.exe is only 18kB; I'll just check the license again to see if this
> distributing is OK.

locale.exe is Cygwin licensed, and it's a Cygwin application, so you
would have to distribute the Cygwin DLL as well.  Plus the Cygwin source
codes (which include the locale.exe source codes), to adhere with the GPL.


Corinna

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