[Q] [Babel] Preferred language from the OS

Yoshiki Ohshima Yoshiki.Ohshima at acm.org
Mon Dec 15 05:17:14 UTC 2003


  Hello,

> As Marcus suggested some weeks ago, Squeak can use the default language
> in the outer OS to select the internal Language.

  I have to say that I don't like this idea.  The VM shouldn't change
its behavior based on the platform it is running that much.

  I'd prefer to put a window with texts in different languages that
explain how to change the default language.

> To do this, I guess, we need to expand the VM to report the OS default
> language.
> 
> For the VM-gurus: What is the best way to do that?

  Just my 2 cents,

-- Yoshiki



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