[fpc-devel] ShortMonthNames give non local result

[michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be]

Include the 'clocale' unit in your program's uses clause.

it will initialize the internationalization settings in the sysutils unit.

I have adapted the documentation so it mentions this.

Michael.

On Sun, 5 Dec 2010, Alexander wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I try use this variable, but result in English:
>
> uses SysUtils;
> begin
>   WriteLn(SysUtils.ShortMonthNames[1]);
> end.
>
> Out:
>
> Jan
>
> set | grep 'LANG' :
>
> GDM_LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
> LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
>
> fpc -iW :
>
> 2.4.0-0
>
> Description of ShortMonthNames (http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/sysutils/shortmonthnames.html):
>
> ShortMonthNames is an array with the abbreviated names of months. It is used by the date formatting routines. The initialization routines of the SysUtils unit initialize this string with a value conforming to the regional preferences of the user or system regional default.
>
>
> Good Luck,
>   Alexander.
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