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Jamulus enables musicians to perform real-time jam sessions over the internet.
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Jamulus -? is not translated. English only #1653

Closed ghost closed 3 years ago

ghost commented 3 years ago

Describe the bug

Jamulus -? is not translated. To Reproduce

Jamulus -? Expected behavior

Command line help should be in selected language Screenshots

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softins commented 3 years ago

The language selected in the GUI is only for the GUI itself, and is stored in the ini file. At the point where Jamulus -? or Jamulus --help is executed, the ini file has not been read, and may not even exist.

The only logical item to consult for this would be the environment variable LANG. But as a point of comparison, on the Linux systems I use, the command nano --help gives the help text in English only, even when I have set LANG to other values, such as fr, fr.UTF-8, de or de.UTF-8, and /usr/share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo does exist for those languages. Similarly for other commands.

So I don't think Jamulus behaves any worse in this regard.

ghost commented 3 years ago

So I don't think Jamulus behaves any worse in this regard.

If its not a bug, then its not a bug. Maybe close this after a few comments, or days, if that is the right thing to do.

hoffie commented 3 years ago

I agree, it's not a bug, because nobody has ever tried to make this work. Lots of standard Linux tools do have localized --help texts (cat, ls, grep and, for me, even nano did have it), so I think this is a reasonable request.

It would mean some work for --help though and it may trigger the subsequent question if other command line messages would have to be translated as well.

If there's little demand, I'd keep it as-is. If this was helpful for lots of people, we should probably do it.

As you suggest, maybe keep this issue open for some days. It will still be searchable afterwards, so anybody coming across this issue can still voice their opinion later.