Re: [PATCH] make balsa Euro-ready

[Matthias Andree <ma+balsa dt e-technik uni-dortmund de>]

On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Albrecht Dreß wrote:

> Am 14.11.2001 22:55:27 schrieb(en) Matthias Andree:

> >Seriously, should not the default itself be configurable by the user?
> >Guessing the charset from the locale will work out in most cases, but
> >why not leave the choice for the default to the user?
> 
> Yes, of course you are right at this point. Usually the user will set the 
> LANG environt variable, e.g. for german either to de_DE (in which case we 
> should use the default) or to de_DE.<charset> which should result in 
> <charset> being used. So it might be a good idea to just check the result of 
> 
> g_getenv("LANG"). IMHO there should be no further config option.

Careful. Balsa supports multiple identities per user, and just looking
at LANG, LC_LANG or something may not be appropriate. Do not create
artificial limitations.