[Gnumed-devel] the whole language thing

[James Busser]

Could we please consolidate some of our information (some of which  
may exist only in people's heads and unknown-to-me places in the code).

I understand GNUmed chose to make English the primary language, I  
guess that means that the main trunk code contains English strings  
for all things like menus, menu items, on-screen labels.

GNUmed is also "internationalized" which means (??) it is configured  
to *support* (allow) translation?

A translation is a structured set of strings that are able to  
substitute for any or all of the menus, menu items, window title bar  
text, and on-screen labels (literals) for the fields and for dialog  
box questions or information. (??) And where a translation is  
incomplete, it need not cause any problem other than the unspecified  
or incomplete portions causing the menus etc to display in the  
primary language?

The public db at salaam has a

        currently selected database language ('de_DE')

which does not match my current system language ('en_CA'). However I  
cannot tell that choosing "Set" or "Don't set" makes any difference.  
Either way, the menus all display in English as do the inbox column  
headings (category, type, message) and it is only the content e.g.  
"medizinish", "Dokumente durchsehen" etc that are displayed as one  
would expect to be defined by the content of the data tables.

With my own local database I also have a persisting (seeming)  
problem. When I log into v9 using client 0.3.2 from tarball, I am  
presented the USS Enterprise warning, which I acknowledge. I am then  
presented with

	The currently selected language ('None') does not match the current  
system language (en_CA)?

        Do you want to set the database language to 'en_Ca'?

How did the currently-selected language end up to be (or remain)  
"None"... is this a function of the bootstrap?

How do I set it?

If I click "Set" (to set it to 'en_CA') but it makes no difference  
because the next time I log in I get the *same* dialog that the  
database language is 'None' does this point to a bug? File a bug report?

Also, what is "Remember to ignore language mismatch" ... what is this  
supposed to achieve, and how would it be useful?