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fix apple use of - instead of _ in language identifiers; only set LANGUAGE if the language preferences are translatable

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Paul Davis 2020-05-01 12:31:52 -06:00
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@ -96,9 +96,30 @@ set_language_preference ()
break;
}
}
NSRange r = { 0, static_cast<NSUInteger> (count) };
setenv ("LANGUAGE", [[[languages subarrayWithRange:r] componentsJoinedByString:@":"] UTF8String], 0);
cout << "LANGUAGE set to " << getenv ("LANGUAGE") << endl;
if (have_translatable_languages) {
NSRange r = { 0, static_cast<NSUInteger> (count) };
std::string stupid_apple_string = [[[languages subarrayWithRange:r] componentsJoinedByString:@":"] UTF8String];
/* Apple's language preference tokens use "-" to separate the two letter ISO language code from the two-letter
ISO region code. So for a German speaker in Germany whose macOS system settings reflect these realities the user
language preference will be "de-DE".
Why Apple did this when the standard everywhere else is to use an underscore is unclear. However, we do know that
neither gettext not setlocale(2) will work with these hyphen separated tokens, so fix them.
*/
for (std::string::iterator s = stupid_apple_string.begin(); s != stupid_apple_string.end(); ++s) {
if (*s == '-') {
*s = '_';
}
}
setenv ("LANGUAGE", stupid_apple_string.c_str(), 0);
cout << "LANGUAGE set to " << getenv ("LANGUAGE") << endl;
}
}
/* now get AppleLocale value and use that for LANG */