From: Benny M. <ben...@gm...> - 2011-04-20 08:24:18
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The wiki page contains this: http://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Howto:Change_the_language_of_reports#What_about_dates_and_calendars If you want dates different, you must install the correct locale! Just setting LANG is not ok, as we have no idea what the (abbreviated) months names are. Those things are part of the locale. It is no problem in linux to install more than one locale, and you can change that in system settings. Benny 2011/4/3 Peter Landgren <pet...@te...> > Devs, > > If I will run Gramps in another language than defined by the system locale, > in this case Swedish, > I use a command to get Gramps in German: > LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 python src/gramps.py > > Gramps starts with the German translation and German relationships. > However the date handler is still the Swedish one. > > Looking at the code in _DateHandler.py > ------------------------------------------------- > if not constfunc.win(): > LANG = locale.getlocale(locale.LC_TIME)[0] > else: > LANG = locale.getdefaultlocale(locale.LC_TIME)[0] > if not LANG: > if "LANG" in os.environ: > LANG = os.environ["LANG"] > ------------------------------------------------- > > which of course will give LANG=sv_SE and as result > skipping the setting of the os-variable LANG. > > Changing the order bit results in that the German date handler is loaded. > > ------------------------------------------------- > if "LANG" in os.environ: > LANG = os.environ["LANG"] > > if not LANG: > if not constfunc.win(): > LANG = locale.getlocale(locale.LC_TIME)[0] > else: > LANG = locale.getdefaultlocale(locale.LC_TIME)[0] > ------------------------------------------------- > Is there a certain reason for the original order? > What is correct? > > /Peter > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Create and publish websites with WebMatrix > Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; > WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and > publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf > _______________________________________________ > Gramps-devel mailing list > Gra...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-devel > |