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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KLocale weirdnes
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       1998-02-28 13:20:46
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Jacek Konieczny wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I just wanted to fix kpanel to display time using locale. But it didn't worked.
> So, I looked into klocale.cpp and I found out, that locale is always set to
> "C", and LANG variable is only used for message translations.
> 
> Why it is done this way. If there is no one who may give a reason with sense,
> I will fix it to set locale using 'setlocale(LC_ALL,"")'.
> 
> Not only messages are controled by locale, so it should be used.
> Also there should be possibility to set messages using LC_MESSAGES, and having
> other variables set to "C",
> 
> This way it is done now KDE is not consistent with other locale-using
> applications.
> 
I have no idea, how the "C" can came in. But I think, a better way than
"" would
be to use the lang variable, that klocale finds out, since libc has no
idea about
~/.kderc ;)

Greets, Stephan

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