[Gnumed-devel] GNUmed i18n, user interface language setting

[Sebastian Hilbert]

Hi all,
 
I was contacted off list on how to change the language in the GNUmed GUI. I 
looked at 
http://wiki.gnumed.de/bin/view/Gnumed/GnumedManual#AdministratorGuideInManual 
and could not find it.

There is this page : http://wiki.gnumed.de/bin/view/Gnumed/FrontendI18N
but it seems not to be linked from anywhere.

Anyway I know that one can set it in a shell like this

export LANG=de_DE and call gnumed from that shell. 

GNUmed bails out when I call 

export LANG=de and call gnumed from the shell

/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Gnumed/pycommon/gmTools.py:13: 
DeprecationWarning: the MimeWriter module is deprecated; use the email package 
instead
  import urllib2 as wget, decimal, StringIO, MimeWriter, mimetypes, mimetools
,========================================================
| Unhandled exception caught !
| Type : <class 'locale.Error'>
| Value: unsupported locale setting
`========================================================
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/runpy.py", line 122, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/runpy.py", line 34, in _run_code
    exec code in run_globals
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Gnumed/wxpython/gnumed.py", line 491, 
in <module>
    from Gnumed.wxpython import gmGuiMain
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Gnumed/wxpython/gmGuiMain.py", line 
36, in <module>
    import wx
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx/__init__.py", 
line 45, in <module>
    from wx._core import *
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx/_core.py", 
line 14530, in <module>
    default = locale.getpreferredencoding()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/locale.py", line 549, in getpreferredencoding
    setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "")
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/locale.py", line 513, in setlocale
    return _setlocale(category, locale)
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting
address@hidden:/usr/share/icons> export LANG=de_DE
address@hidden:/usr/share/icons> gnumed
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Gnumed/pycommon/gmTools.py:13: 
DeprecationWarning: the MimeWriter module is deprecated; use the email package 
instead
  import urllib2 as wget, decimal, StringIO, MimeWriter, mimetypes, mimetools
OnInit returned false, exiting...

I had a look at 
http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/gnumed-client/filelist

If I am right (and this is the case on my system) GNUmed starts up only when 
supplying LANG=es_ES but there is only a gnumed.mo in 'es'. There is no such 
file in /usr/share/locale/es_ES

Sebastian