[GRASS-dev] winGRASS: enabling non-english languages?

[Glynn Clements]

Markus Neteler wrote:

> >>> The point is that translations should be enabled
> >>> also for CMD line usage which requires as far as I understand a change
> >>> in Init.bat (?).
> >>
> >> On Windows, Init.bat should set LANG (or at least LC_MESSAGES and
> >> LC_CTYPE). But LANG needs to be in Unix format (e.g. "ja_JP"), while
> >> Windows provides a numeric code. So we need some way to get the
> >> appropriate LANG value from the Windows locale setting.
> >
> > Thanks for r40533 which I have backported to 6.4 (r40540) and 6.5 (r40539).
> 
> When launching latest winGRASS-SVN (self compiled) in the MinGW shell,
> the LANG and LC_MESSAGES are not set.
> Do we need a similar change in Init.sh for MinGW?

Hmm; MSys[1] users should be setting LANG (etc) in ~/.bash_profile
(etc) if they want it set.

[1] MinGW is gcc + binutils; MSys is the bash shell and common
utilities.

I think that we should avoid pointing Windows users towards MSys, lest
the mailing list turns into a "bash-help" or "unix-help" list.

I'm starting to regret that we didn't decide to move all of the
scripts to Python for 6.4.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>