Replying to <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-01/msg00119.html>:
> I have a Dutch windows version, so > on my PC the application should automatically set its language to Dutch. > I want to release this application to users with different language > preferences, and on their PCs the application should automatically adapt > to their OS language settings. > > I think that doing setlocale(LC_ALL, ""); on application initialization > should do the trick. Yes it does - assuming you use a libintl from gettext version >= 0.18, and assuming that you have a #include <libintl.h> in the source file that invokes setlocale (LC_ALL, ""). This was implemented in gettext 0.18. Citing the NEWS file: * Runtime behaviour: - On MacOS X and Windows systems, <libintl.h> now extends setlocale() and newlocale() so that their determination of the default locale considers the choice the user has made in the system control panels. I don't know which gettext version is used in cygwin 1.7.7. You can look it up through "grep LIBINTL_VERSION /usr/include/libintl.h". But note that libintl provides only text message translation. Other locale services, such as number formatting or collation, are implemented in libc. For these please follow the documentation, cf. <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-01/msg00129.html> Bruno -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple