How to set the language?

[Kreuvf]

I asked about it in the dev-chan some time ago, but for me (as I plan to do some writing on the readme for 2.1) it's easier if the info is in that forum.

So: How to make Warzone use the language-file you want to use?

[DevUrandom]

The warzone2100.mo file needs to be in a /LC_MESSAGES/ directory where LOCALEDIR points to. (Defined on compilation, usually /usr/local/share/locale/)
Then you need to set LANG=_[.UTF-8] before running Warzone.
For example:

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$ ls -l /usr/local/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/warzone2100.mo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 176588 2008-03-04 14:54 /usr/local/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/warzone2100.mo
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 ./src/warzone2100

[Kreuvf]

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$ ll /usr/local/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/warzone2100.mo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 176588 2008-03-04 14:54 /usr/local/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/warzone2100.mo
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 ./src/warzone2100

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ll

is an alias for

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ls -l

, right?

[DevUrandom]

Yes, sorry, corrected that.
You get that file into this position by running "make install".

[Kreuvf]

And users that do not self-compile (e. g. use *.deb-packages) then can just start Warzone with
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 [wherever warzone is located]
?

[Devil12]

Sorry that I have to ask.
Where do I have to enter this?

[DevUrandom]

And users that do not self-compile (e. g. use *.deb-packages) then can just start Warzone with
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 [wherever warzone is located]
?

Users who install a package from their distribution should just be able to run Warzone 2100 from the application menu, given that they have selected eg. "German" as the language for their distribution.
Otherwise you'd have to run

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LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 warzone2100

from the console.

[Devil12]

And how do I do that?
I never did this before.

[Buginator]

And how do I do that?
I never did this before.

He shows you what to type in the console.

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LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 warzone2100

from the console.[/size]

If you on windows, you can try SET LANG=...  in a command prompt, or enter in your environment variables.
Dunno if it will work though.

[Devil12]

It doesn't seem to work.
Isn't there an other way to set the Language?

[Kreuvf]

Is it necessary to specify the character encoding?
Could you just do

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LANG=de_DE

as well?

[DevUrandom]

Is it necessary to specify the character encoding?
Could you just do

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LANG=de_DE

as well?

Should work too.
And you need to have the locale directory structure at the correct position... Where that is I am currently trying to find out, but MSVC keeps crashing upon me, my VBox goes down regularly, and it all *$*%*...

[Devil12]

When you got the position, can you explain for me what to do, please?

[Buginator]

It doesn't seem to work.
Isn't there an other way to set the Language?

Perhaps this will help?

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/install.html

Most GNU packages have the ability to output messages in several languages. This native-language support (NLS) requires the LibIntl and the LibIconv libraries. On MS-Windows they have been adapted so that NLS chooses the system language, unless one of the environment variables LANG or LANGUAGE has been set. The language codes (ISO 639) for these environment variables are different from the MS-Windows ones. When using a program in a console window (command.com or cmd.exe) and setting LANG or LANGUAGE, you must also set the correct code page with the chcp command; for European languages, code page 1252 usually suffices.

[DevUrandom]

I've got an exe in beta testing which works for me. So as long as I wasn't tricked by something, in 2.1_beta2 you'll have a working setup right out of the windows installer (*cough*). (On Linux this should already have worked without problems.)