Detecting the native locale
Joshua Minor
j at lux.vu
Sat Mar 8 12:48:16 EST 2008
Great. This seems to be working. I've updated Speak to v5.
-josh
On Mar 8, 2008, at 8:47 AM, Walter Bender wrote:
> $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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