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.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > [....moved the conversation from Lazarus mailing list....] > > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Bart <bartjun...@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 - > > > _______________________________________________ > fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit > http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pas...@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal > _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
