Re: National Language Support Functions

[Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>]

Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> Jason Rumney wrote:
>> Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
>>> We never made any decision on this issue. Most of the answers 
>>> pointed to that GetUserDefaultUILanguage is the correct function to 
>>> use. Or am I just misinterpreting to confirm what I said at the 
>>> beginning ;-)
>>
>> You are just misinterpreting to agree with what you yourself believe. 
>> Benjamin Riefenstahl had a similar setup as yourself, with a 
>> non-English locale on an English localized version of Windows, and he 
>> too would prefer the English tutorial, but I don't think we should 
>> limit ourselves to the languages that Windows has been translated to, 
>> and in some cases this is plainly the wrong language to use.
>
> I am sorry, but I do not at all understand what you mean. What do you 
> mean with that "I don't think we should limit ourselves to the 
> languages that Windows has been translated to"? Have we discussed that 
> at all? Is not this discussion about how to choose the correct 
> language for text to be shown inside Emacs (in this case the tutorial 
> of couse)?

The function you are suggesting we use returns the language used by 
Windows itself for its UI. If we use that function to determine the 
user's language preference, we (1) limit the language selection to 
languages that Windows has been localized in, and (2) the language 
cannot be changed by the user after installation except in Vista and 
installations of Windows 2000/XP that Microsoft makes available only to 
large multinational corporations.

> It would be very good if we continued this discussion. It may not 
> matter very much for those using an English keyboard layout, but it 
> definitively does if you use for example a Swedish keyboard layout.
I don't see why keyboard layout has anything to do with it. The language 
that Emacs (and Gimp) uses is determined by the user's locale settings, 
not by the keyboard layout.