[Pythonmac-SIG] Get the locale on OSX

[Chris Van Bael]

On Dec 3, 2007 9:26 AM, Chris Van Bael <chris.van.bael at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 3, 2007 8:40 AM, Nicholas Riley <njriley at uiuc.edu> wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 03:18:14PM +0100, Chris Van Bael wrote:
> > > I'm trying to port an python application which runs fine on Windows
> > > and Linux to OSX.
> > > However, it seems "lang = locale.getdefaultlocale()[0]" doesn't work.
> > > I've searched quite some bit on the Internet and on this mailinglist,
> > > and apparently it is a problem, but I haven't found any solution for
> > > it.
> >
> > What are you trying to do with the locale information?  Leopard's
> > Terminal does have an option to 'set LANG environment variable on
> > startup', which when checked does cause locale.getdefaultlocale() to
> > work, but this is of no help in general.
>
> Well,
>
> it's for some educational games: Childsplay and Schoolsplay
> (www.schoolsplay.org)
> Based on the locale information, we choose different languages to use
> in the strings and also different alphabet sound files.
> We do have an commandline option to set the language, so "schoolsplay
> --language=nl_BE" would give Dutch strings and sounds.
> However the nicest option would be that it searched in the settings of the OS.
> The program would be packed btw with py2app, so and end user wouldn't
> have to use the Terminal (and install all Python dependencies).

Anybody any ideas on how to solve my problem?