Detecting the native locale

[Ixo X oxI]

Although.. :)  I would be really neat if this was settable as a user option,
inside speak too.

Example, In locale of US or UK, tune to speak with French accent or vice
versa . :)

Or in non-english locales, tune to english to learn english speaking ?

-Ixo

2008/3/8 Joshua Minor <j at lux.vu>:

> 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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