wxdatetime and monthame language Topic is solved

[armink]

Hello,

I'm working on a german computer and use wxdatetime to get the month name.

The problem is I

[benedicte]

Did you try to set the wxLocale to English?

it may works on some items (widgets, messages, UI strings), but not for others, like the calendar control, which is system dependant... therefore, it will use the system language...

[armink]

All my application messages are in english since some colleages are from UK and US. For the german ones I set in OnInit() a translation catalog

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int syslang = wxLocale::GetSystemLanguage();
    
    switch ( syslang )
    {
        case wxLANGUAGE_GERMAN:
        m_locale.Init(wxLANGUAGE_GERMAN);
        m_locale.AddCatalog(wxT("de_catalog.mo"));
        break;
                
        default:
        ;
    }

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You mean I could temporarily set the locale to english ?
I wouldn like to recall all the code above after that ... isnt there a possibility to set the locale just and only for the wxdatetime ?

[benedicte]

I don't think you can restrict a wxlocale for a widget, as this is a global setting for the app.

[armink]

well ... I solved the problem now with

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monthname=dt.GetMonthName(dt.GetCurrentMonth());
        			monthname.Replace("Januar","January");
        			monthname.Replace("Februar","February");
        			monthname.Replace("M