[vlc] Re: VLC 0.5.1 broken on OS X

[Derk-Jan Hartman]

On maandag, feb 17, 2003, at 18:56 Europe/Amsterdam, Michel Alexandre 
Salim wrote:
> On Monday, February 17, 2003, at 04:02 PM, Michel Alexandre Salim 
> wrote:
>
>> VLC 0.5.0 works great apart from playing encrypted DVDs (see my 
>> previous post .. no reply yet), but surprisingly VLC 0.5.1 opens with 
>> the menu set to Japanese!
>>
> Replying to myself here, apparently the 0.5.1 image for OS X was 
> compiled without English support, so it just moved to the next 
> language (which on OS X was funnily Japanese...)
>
> Funnily, once I change my language preference ordering so French is 
> second, the menu does not crash anymore... hmm

Actually it's even more complicated than that. I'll do the long version 
;)
VLC uses an alternate system for creating localizations then the 
standard macosx way. We use this method, because of it's portability to 
other platforms as well. This method (gettext) uses the system variable 
LANG.

On platforms where this variable is not set, we consult your system's 
localization options and set this variable ourselves. The problem was 
that we had forgotten to add English to this list (we actually had 
British, but that's not that useful ). So whenever you had an unset 
LANG variable, with English as your preferred language, it would 
actually turn to the next preferred language.

When you were editing your 'International' settings, the system reset 
the LANG variable itself and you no longer experienced the problem, 
because VLC didn't have to turn to it's faulty code. Actually the whole 
problem is Apple's fault for having an unset LANG variable in some 
cases, which causes us to sometimes having to set this ourselves.

A new macosx release (0.5.1a) will be made available tonight to fix 
this specific issue.
Hoping this will answer some questions for some ppl,

Derk-Jan Hartman
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