Thomas H. wrote:
> From: Thomas H. <me@alternize.com>
> > what i noticed: if i delete the folder share/locale/de/ the system
> > messages are back to english - but that can't be THE solution, can
> > it? :)
>
> well, it actually was the solution, at least to the weird part of the
> problem:
>
> there are two versions of win32 binaries available on postgres.org.
> there's the installer msi version, and there is the installerless zip
> version.
>
> the installer version does NOT install the folder "share/locale/"! so
> when using the msi installer, postgres has no translations at all -
> thus the fallback to english.
Are you sure you didn't just skip enabling National Language Support?
It's not included by default, but should be available.
> so at least that explains the "changed" behaviour. nevertheless,
> LC_MESSAGES seems to be defunct - with the "locale" folder present,
> pg always picks the os' language and ignores the lc_message value.
This looks like I can reproduce though, at least on cvs head. Did this
work for you in previous versions?
//Magnus
