user languages

[Mubarak AlQahtani]

Dear All,


One of the user's aspects is languages that he speak (or at least understand), so is it mandatory for the operating system (i.e Desktop environment softwares) to know the preferred languages ( defaults )?!!


As a programmer I prefer if the DE has some defaults info for each user. not sure under what category it should be but its user's info.


Thanks


Mubarak AlQahtani

[Simon Lees]

Post by Mubarak AlQahtani
Dear All,
One of the user's aspects is languages that he speak (or at least
understand), so is it mandatory for the operating system (i.e Desktop
environment softwares) to know the preferred languages ( defaults )?!!
As a programmer I prefer if the DE has some defaults info for each user.
not sure under what category it should be but its user's info.
Thanks
Mubarak AlQahtani

This can still be handled via the general locale handling so all a DE
should have to do is query locale, see
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/locale#Overriding_system_locale_per_user_session