[MiNT] Language selection (Was: Re: [ANNOUNCE] FreeMiNT 1.17.0 Released !)

[Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no>]

On Sat, 2011-01-01 at 19:31 +0100, Helmut Karlowski wrote:

> > I think the proper way is to use the language set in the _AKP-cookie.
> > Same for the keyboard - the keyboard-files contains the AKP language
> > code, so MiNT should scan $SYSDIR/lang/keyboard or something for the
> > correct keyboard file.
> 
> Can this be changed by the user? When I have it set to german but want  
> english language I can change LANG to en.

The cookie is set by TOS on boot-time according to the language set in
NV-RAM. So it's an easy way to automatically set up the user's preferred
language. Do you want to switch language on the fly? Perhaps an
environment variable or setting in xaaes.cnf can override the
_AKP-setting.

Keyboard can easily be switched on the fly using swkbd. When the
keyboard-file is loaded, MiNT will also update the _AKP-cookie
accordingly.

> What does this cookie affect currently at all?

Keyboard and language in TOS and some applications (like my Taskbar).

Jo Even