Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 25062: /trunk/gtk/ /trunk/gtk/: dlg_utils.c

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>]

Guy Harris wrote:
> Stig Bjørlykke wrote:
> > 2008/4/17, Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > > putenv("LANG=C")? ;-)
> > This works, of cource.  But can we add this in main()?

Well, I'm not that brave, but you did ask if it was possible ;-)

> *Should* we add it in main?  It affects things other than the language 
> used in (some) buttons, e.g. it affects the way toupper() and tolower() 
> work (which is why we mustn't use them, or functions that use them, on 
> ASCII strings where we expect "i" to map to "I" in toupper() and expect 
> "I" to map to "i" in tolower(), as that *doesn't* happen in Turkish 
> locales, at least on Ubuntu).  Are there any cases where it affects 
> things in ways that users would want?

I use LANG=C so I don't care.  And I'm familiar enough with other 
languages that I don't mind when my wife's laptop asks me if I want to 
"Annuler" something.

Stig's question is interesting, though: Wireshark is (deeply) English 
only (and deeply so largely on a German's conviction that it should be 
that way--no American arrogance there) so should we be unhappy that GTK 
is smart enough to use locale-specific dialog buttons?

In other words: should the dialog buttons be consistent with the rest of 
the user's desktop experience or with the application that is providing 
the dialog?