Re: zenmap: problems with GUI language

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 03:11:21PM -0700, David Fifield wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 12:46:35PM +0100, Robert Premuž wrote:
> > As I use Croatian regional settings in Windows, the zenmap GUI is in
> > Croatian. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to change that by
> > following the procedures on http://nmap.org/book/zenmap-lang.html
> >
> > I tried to run the following commands in the Windows command shell
> > (cmd.exe):
> >
> > set LANG=en_US
> > zenmap
> >
> > but zenmap started with GUI in Croatian language.
> > Just in case I tried to set LANG using the Control Panel but the
> > effect was the same.
> >
> > As a last resort I renamed
> > "C:\Program Files\Nmap\share\zenmap\locale\hr" so that zenmap couldn't
> > find the Croatian language file and this way I got GUI in English.
> >
> > So, is there something broken in zenmap for Windows regarding these
> > issues? Am I doing something the wrong way?
>
> Zenmap gets the locale by calling the locale.getdefaultlocale function.
>
> http://docs.python.org/library/locale.html#locale.getdefaultlocale
>
> On Windows, this first tries to get the locale by calling the
> GetLocaleInfo function.
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd318101(VS.85).aspx
>
> If that fails, then it examines environment variables such as LANG.
> Maybe there's a Windows way to accomplish this without LANG? Is there a
> way to run just one application in a different locale? Does anybody have
> a non-English system locale, but run certain applications in English,
> for example?

Thanks guys. I think this is fixed in r16368. I found out that
locale.getdefaultlocale doesn't look at LANG at all on Windows, so our
documented menthod of setting the locale hasn't worked since we started
looking at the system-wide locale setting, even for me in an English
locale. I changed the code to look at LANG first and then call
locale.getdefaultlocale. People who use a supported non-English locale
won't have to do anything to get Zenmap in their language, and those who
prefer the English can set LANG.

David Fifield
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