[vlc] Re: Localization in 0.86

[Marian Durkovic]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:49:45PM +0200, R?mi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Le mercredi 14 f?vrier 2007 22:33, Michiel de Boer a ?crit :
> > In other words: gettext is reporting to you that i'm using the Dutch
> > metric, currency and time system. But it apparently it either ISN'T
> > reporting to you that i have set 'English' as my default language, or
> > VLC is not using the regional information properly!
> 
> Unfortunately, that's the contrary. Gettext does report the (default) 
> language in use. On Windows, it happens to use the regional settings 
> for its guesswork, while on platforms with a decent C run-time library 
> (locale-wise), it works fine, i.e. uses the configured "message" 
> locale, independant of the monetary symbol, decimal separator, 
> date/time format, etc. That's why I'm arguing that if you find this 
> behavior inconsistent, you should fix GNU gettext, rather than VLC.

The reason is probably again the use of legacy non-unicode function
GetACP(). It's present both in VLC as well as in gettext.
We should probably use something more recent, e.g. GetUserDefaultLangID().


        With kind regards,

                M.

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