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

From: Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 20:04:26 +0100


Le 6 nov. 2014 19:55, "Guy Harris" <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
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> On Nov 6, 2014, at 3:57 AM, Michal Labedzki <michal.labedzki@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > I have LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF8, but KDE and Firefox set to Polish. So
> > Wireshark needs to be set to Polish too.
> > So some applications I have in Polish, other in English.
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> So why do you work in a "mixed mode" like that?
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> > I think it is common case if you are not native English.
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> So presumably many of the non-native-English users you know run in "mixed mode".  Why do they do that?
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On my side I do this when I have a poor or incomplete translation: I hate having a mix of English and French sentences depending on the menus.
And as I said in an earlier email, letting a user manually select the language in an application is common practice on Windows.

Pascal.