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[Derek Atkins]

Jon Lapham <lapham at extracta.com.br> writes:

> Derek Atkins wrote:
> > I'll note that some OSes use LANGUAGE, not LANG..  It all depends
> > on the implementation of setlocale() -- gnucash just tells libc to
> > "use the default".  So, this would be challenging, as we'd have
> > to muck with our environment to get it to work right...
> 
> Yup.  But, the question is not whether it is easy to do, or not.  If
> implimented, would it be an acceptable temporary solution?  (I would
> impliment it, even if it needs to be on an OS by OS basis).

Define "acceptable"?  :)

It's a gross hack, but there is a problem and this is a reasonable
workaround on our part (as we know that *UTF-8 lang settings just dont
work for us at all.  I would say:  see if you can do it and submit
a patch. :)

-derek

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