Locale.. feature?

Has anyone noted that OS4.1 ignores the settings in Locale to a certain extent? Selecting english -be it british or "english" english- as the main language in the languages tab of the locale preferences it is simply ignored if a non-english language is in the list too.

I tried out most combinations, english as the first and then irish, or french or whatever, every software and workbench too, is using the second or third language (if I've chosen e.g. english-british_ISO-8859-15 as 1st and english as 2nd) for its localisation.

Yes, the catalog files for workbench are installed and to make sure I copied them over again from the CD.

I also made a fresh install for that purpose being sure I selected..english..

Isn't it supposed to chose the other languages only if the english catalog files are missing?

Any clue? Small improvement for OS 4.1.x?

Examples here:

Preferred languages

english-british_ISO-8859-15
french
irish
german
italian

Workbench is french. Every software is french or irish or german (sequentially if I move it's catalog files)

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Preferred languages

english_ISO-8859-15
french
irish
german
italian

Same as above

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Preferred languages

english
french
irish
german
italian

Same as above
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Preferred languages

english_ISO-8859-15
english-british
french
irish
german

same as above
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Preferred languages

french
irish
german

same as above?!?!

P.S. I might already have pointed to this some time back but I can't find any trace of it either here as on AW

@Amigo1

Yes, I have noticed this too - I reported it in the mega OS4.1 bugs thread but I don't think any of the devs replied.

Simply putting:
English-british
English
German

into preferred languages makes some things some up in German even though they have English catalogs. It seems a little random as to which programs work and which don't, I did some investigation and put a list in the other thread.

There's nothing wrong with the preferred languages list when peeked directly, suggest locale.library's OpenLocale(NULL) is broken.

@Chris

thx for the reply. Good you posted it on the big bugs thread, hopefully some
dveolper read it. Or maybe a beta tester will notice this one and will report to
the mailing list.



edit: can someone please check if it's the same way on OS3.1?

@Amigo1

It worked fine on 3.1, I think it was even ok on 4.0.

@Chris

does it work for you since the update? It's still not 100% here.

@Amigo1

That is well-known Locale bug about which many of us talks on forums and i was in hope that it was fixed in update1, but that is not.

The local/unput area must be improved (by some kind of switcher beetwen keymaps, normal (not buggy) locale support, and so on).

@kas1e

Sad to hear that. Hopefully it get's a quick fix _pretty soon_ .. it's annoying demoing the system and having to invent stupid excuses as why the language is not working.

@Amigo1

AFAIU, the main developer for this part of the OS,
Detluf Wuerkner (Locale/CharSet etc.), left the team in 2007. This may very well explain why there's
no new development in this area. But it seems strange
that no remaining developer could have a look at this bug.

@Kotler

so we need new and more developers,

"Developers, developers, developers, developers!!!

whooohoo!" ?



?Steve B

@Amigo1

Hum, I already heard about it but never selected more than one language.
I'll check that.

@Elwood

Thanks a lot!