Re: Does Zenmap localization "just work" on Windows?

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 07:26:39PM +0100, Dirk Loss wrote:
> David Fifield wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 05:58:46PM +0100, Dirk Loss wrote:
> > > Nmap 4.85BETA2 on my German Windows XP SP2 virtual machine still 
> > > shows  all texts in English per default.
> > > (Setting LANG=de_DE changes the output to German, as described on the 
> > >  web page.)
> > Thanks, that's exactly the information I was looking for. I'll see if
> > there's a way to make Python gettext aware of the native Windows locale
> > setting.
>
> Maybe instead of gettext.install() in I18N.py, you could directly use  
> gettext.translation(), which supports a 'languages' argument.
> This could be initalized with 'locale.getdefaultlocale()[0]', which  
> returns 'de_DE' on my Windows machine.

I used your suggestion in r11968. Calling locale.getdefaultlocale looks
to be better in every way because in addition to checking LANG it does
platform-specific checks that work on Windows at least.

David Fifield

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