Detecting the native locale

[Walter Bender]

$LANG should do the trick. If you want to experiment, try using
sugar-control-panel to set the language.

-walter

On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Joshua Minor <j at lux.vu> wrote:

> I'm trying to make Speak pick its default accent based on the native
> language of the laptop (per Walter's request
> http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6656
>  )  This is a bit different from normal localization - although I
> need to do that also - because it is not just replacing strings.  My
> guess is that I can just look at the environment variable $LANG and
> pick an accent with a similar ISO 639 language code.
>
> Can anyone confirm that using $LANG is appropriate for this?
>
> Also, aside from just setting $LANG to something else, how can I test
> that this actually works?
>
> -josh
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