[cups.development] Localized messages from cups API

[Michael Sweet]

On Mar 17, 2010, at 11:13 AM, Daniel Nicoletti wrote:
>> CUPS only provides localized versions of messages it generates.
>> 
>> For error messages use cupsLastErrorString() to get the localized message.
> 
> Yes, that's the function I use, does it rely on LANGUAGE or LANG to be set?

CUPS looks for the LANG and LC_MESSAGES environment variables to get the localization that is needed. If you use any of the convenience functions or ippNewRequest() then the attributes-natural-language value is filled in for you, otherwise you should call cupsLangDefault() to get the default language and proceed from there.

> Thanks.
> 
>> 
>> On Mar 17, 2010, at 7:04 AM, Daniel Nicoletti wrote:
>> 
>>> I tried to dig into cups sources but could not
>>> find how can a client application using cups API
>>> can get localized messages.
>>> At least when I'm using localhost:631 most of
>>> the messages are localized like forbidden, but
>>> I could not do that in my client application.
>>> 
>>> Is there a way to get localized messages? Like
>>> ippAddString("lang", lang); or it only works
>>> for localhost:631 ?
>>> 
>>> Thanks.
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