Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] On which platforms is there a need for Wireshark to have a "Language" preference

[Michal Labedzki <michal.labedzki@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ability to change language is needed. But the real question is those
names should be translated or not. For example KDE do that. KDE also
provide two options: System language (Polish); No language (standard),
where second one I assume is language in C++ code. If names will be
translated - how to provide user ability to change language when it
may does not current language (for example English guy, that does not
know Chinese). Or maybe flags solve this issue?


Please not that in one thing Wireshark do translation better than KDE,
because we can change translation without restart application

> ("Mis-named" because it should be something such as "System setting", to indicate what defines the language.  I'll fix that.)

Please do not do that. This will be a bug, because Wireshark does not
support all possible system languages (for example Czech), so real
language is not system, but Wireshark origin (English [in details:
"C"]). "Auto" sounds better in this case.

Next question: currently Wiresharl fallback to "C" language. Should
fallback to "English". As I remember translation from C to English is
for tuning it.

Additional question: Is English (*.ts) translation GB or US (or other)?

By the way: Wireshark can be better than other software - it can have
ability to change language in GUI. It is a feature. I will use that
[often than preference like "auto scroll"]

On 7 November 2014 00:45, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Nov 6, 2014, at 10:49 AM, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> If the vast majority of users would always use their system-wide language setting, with the users who don't being, for example, developers working on translations, and there's a way to, for example, override it with an environment variable, perhaps that's sufficient.
>
> And if Wireshark doesn't obey the system-wide language setting with the (mis-named) "Auto" setting for language (I'm looking at *you*, Qt Wireshark on KDE 4...), that's a bug and needs to be fixed.
>
> ("Mis-named" because it should be something such as "System setting", to indicate what defines the language.  I'll fix that.)
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