Re: [Gramps-devel] Date handler when chaning language

[Peter L. <pet...@te...>]

Den Wednesday 20 April 2011 10.24.11 skrev Benny Malengier:
> 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.
They are also included in 20 of the 27 _date_xx.py

/Peter

> 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
> > 
> > 
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