Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
Jason Rumney wrote:
Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
We never made any decision on this issue. Most of the answers
pointed to that GetUserDefaultUILanguage is the correct function to
use. Or am I just misinterpreting to confirm what I said at the
beginning ;-)
You are just misinterpreting to agree with what you yourself believe.
Benjamin Riefenstahl had a similar setup as yourself, with a
non-English locale on an English localized version of Windows, and he
too would prefer the English tutorial, but I don't think we should
limit ourselves to the languages that Windows has been translated to,
and in some cases this is plainly the wrong language to use.
I am sorry, but I do not at all understand what you mean. What do you
mean with that "I don't think we should limit ourselves to the
languages that Windows has been translated to"? Have we discussed that
at all? Is not this discussion about how to choose the correct
language for text to be shown inside Emacs (in this case the tutorial
of couse)?
The function you are suggesting we use returns the language used by
Windows itself for its UI. If we use that function to determine the
user's language preference, we (1) limit the language selection to
languages that Windows has been localized in, and (2) the language
cannot be changed by the user after installation except in Vista and
installations of Windows 2000/XP that Microsoft makes available only to
large multinational corporations.
It would be very good if we continued this discussion. It may not
matter very much for those using an English keyboard layout, but it
definitively does if you use for example a Swedish keyboard layout.
I don't see why keyboard layout has anything to do with it. The language
that Emacs (and Gimp) uses is determined by the user's locale settings,
not by the keyboard layout.
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