[Tuxpaint-devel] Bug in locale code?

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

I'm trying to slightly tweak where UI buttons get drawn, on a per-locale-basis
(the font that Pango uses to render Khmer text is very tall, and I thought I
could let it push down a few pixels, rather than squish it or use a smaller
font, which would make it less readable.)

However, I'm discover a problem whereby Tux Paint tries to look up which
locale is being used (an integer representing an index into a variety of
arrays, based on the "LANG_xx" enums defined in i18n.h).  Despite using
"putenv()" to set the LC_ALL and LANG variables, setlocale() seems to think
I'm in "en_US.UTF-8".

The Khmer text renders properly in Tux Paint, but at that point in the code
(i18n.c's set_current_language()), where I want to detect what locale we
actually got, I'm getting LANG_EN for English. :(

Can anyone tell what we're doing wrong in there?


The "setlocale(LC_ALL, "");" found at the end of i18n.c's setup_language()
_should_ set all of our locale LC_'s to the one we requested via
"putenv("LC_ALL=...")" (in that same function), right?

The "loc = setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, NULL)" found in set_current_language()
should then putting that same locale into the 'loc' variable, but, as I
mentioned, I'm getting en_US.UTF-8.  *shrug*

FWIW, I'm on Ubuntu 7.10 using KDE 3.5.6.  I'm asking Tux Paint to use
Khmer by running:

  tuxpaint --lang khmer

I'll try it by setting by LANG env. variable, instead and see if that helps.

Thx,

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