option for specifying lanugage?

[sen_ml@eccosys.com]

thanks for your response -- i'll pass it on to the author of the program.

a few comments though...

wk> $ LANG=it gpg foo
 
wk> (assuming a Bourne/POSIX shell)

> one of the paragraphs in my original message that you did not quote
> mentions the fact that at least one program (i presume there are more)
> has been written to process english gnupg messages.  assuming that

wk> No program should process GnuPG messages; programs should use the
wk> output of --status-fd.  If a program needs to process the messages it
wk> should reset the locale variables.  The test scripts for example do
wk> this.

ok -- i'll send this feedback on.

>   -having the program forcibly specify /bin/sh seems like a
>    waste of starting up an extra process

wk> Giving environment variables for a program is part of the shell
wk> syntax.  No extra process.

i think we are talking about different things here -- or may be i am
just confused.

>   -forcing the user to set an environment variable every time they use gpg 
>    doesn't make sense

wk> I can't see a reason to have just gpg emit English messages and other
wk> programs use the locale message version.

i am not sure what you mean here.

thanks for your feedback!