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[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Jeu 18 décembre 2008 17:08, Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen a écrit :
>
> "Nicolas Mailhot" <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I hope that when XI and XKB are reworked a "language" property will
>> be
>> added to the protocol.
>>
>> Right now many apps try to infer the language being written from the
>> xkb layout in use (for on the fly spellchecking, activation of the
>> correct locl font features, etc) and since the same layout can be
>> used
>> to write different languages the heuristic breaks badly.
>
> In which cases should this differ from the system locale?
> (I.e. whatever setlocale() returns).

When someone writes an English message to an international list, for
example.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot