Bug#576653: [freecad] Language selection should use current locale

Jens Seidel jensseidel at users.sf.net
Tue Apr 6 08:31:30 UTC 2010


Package: freecad
Version: 0.9.2646.5-1+b1

Hi,

FreeCad starts by default English even in my German environment. It took not
long until I discovered that it expects the language to be choosen in the
preferences. That's a very bad and extremely unusual behaviour. There exists
the system locale which is set via environment variables such as LANG,
LC_ALL, LC_MESSAGES, LANGUAGE and I expect that this is respected by apps.

So please use the getlocale function to obtain the language. Changing my
prefered language is so a task of changing LANG instead of reconfiguring
every program I have installed.

Jens





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