[fpc-pascal] locale solution for unix systems

[ik]

In order to know what is the active local in Unix/Linux you should
check the environment variables.
If it was not defined or it stand on "C", then en_US is inplace.

Ido


On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys
<graemeg.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> [....moved the conversation from Lazarus mailing list....]
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Bart <bartjunk64 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yes, i see. I have those files on Suse too.
>> Not sure what package is responsible.
>> An rpm -q locale (or locales) reveals nothing.
>
> I'm pretty sure rpm must have a way to query it by giving the file and
> asking what package it belongs to.
>
>> I was under the impression that actually the LC_xxx files in
>> /usr/lib/locales/ determined the locale setting?
>
> I think the /usr/share/i18n/locales/* files are simply text based
> versions of those files - I have not confirmed this though, on
> speculating.
>
>>
>> See that "grouping" differs.
>> (I have  not extensively checked other LC_xxx files)
>
> I have tried that test on my side using en_GB, en_ZA and af_ZA and the
> "grouping" is the same in either text or LC_xxx files.
> Maybe your text files and LC_xxx files are differing versions?
>
> Either way, parsing the /usr/share/i18n/locales/* should give much
> better locale results than the current FPC implementation under Unix
> systems. If you don't use the libc locale unit, everything is
> hard-coded to en_US which is not so nice.
>
>
> Regards,
>  - Graeme -
>
>
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