[wxruby-users] CalendarCtrl - Weekdays names - Month names

[Alex Fenton]

Hi

Carlos Troncoso Phillips wrote:
> I've been using wxRuby for some days, and already done some quite neat
> apps, but (there is always a but) even though I thought WeekDays names
> and month names where governed by the OS (and local localization), my
> calendar shows up with english names.
> I haven't been able to find a method or attr on the calendarctrl to
> override this.
> So, is it possible to use custom names (Mon-Tue-Wed-Thu-Fri-Sat-Sun) ->
> (Lu-Ma-Mi-Ju-Vi-Sa-Do) as well as month names for use in foreign apps?
>   

My native locale is en_GB, but when I added this to the top of the 
calendar sample:

Wx::Locale.new(Wx::LANGUAGE_FRENCH)

the calendar control correctly displays the weekdays as "Lun Mar Mer 
Jeu..." and with the french month names. This is on OS X.

I had a look at the wxWidgets code that handles this, and it should be 
using the same locale-sensitive system calls as Ruby itself. Could you 
say a) what operating system you're using and b) whether a ruby call like

Time.now.strftime("%A")

returns the correct local name?

You could try adding a call like the above 
Wx::Locale.new(Wx::LANGUAGE_XXX) for the correct language to see if that 
sets what you want.

alex