[Mono-dev] Mono.Unix.Catalog.Init where does it get the locale from?

[Vladimir Dimitrov]

Great I tested it and this works for me too :).
Do you think we should probably post this as a bug in bugzilla? And if yes
then how do we define it?
If you think this is not a bug but a practice that should be used then we
should probably post it on the Mono.Posix page so people would know this
next time.

Thanks,
 Vladimir

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Pryor [mailto:jonpryor at vt.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 7:48 PM
To: Vladimir Dimitrov
Cc: mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com
Subject: Re: [Mono-dev] Mono.Unix.Catalog.Init where does it get the locale
from?

On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 19:16 +0200, Vladimir Dimitrov wrote:
> Thanks for the quick answer I tried your suggestion and set the variable
> using this code:
> 
>                     CultureInfo culture = new CultureInfo
> (config.Localization);
>                     Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = culture;
>                     Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = culture;
>                     Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable ("LANG",
> config.Localization.Replace ("-", "_"));

What I've found is that setting LANG is not enough; in my own tests with
Catalog:

	LANG=es mono foo.exe

is ignored, but

	LANGUAGE=es mono foo.exe

works as desired (using the `es' message catalog).  I don't know why
this is the case.

Consequently, I would suggest setting the LANGUAGE environment variable
and see if that works; it did for my test app.

 - Jon