--- loncom/localize/lonlocal.pm	2003/09/23 02:19:09	1.12
+++ loncom/localize/lonlocal.pm	2003/09/28 03:02:36	1.15
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # The LearningOnline Network with CAPA
 # Localization routines
 #
-# $Id: lonlocal.pm,v 1.12 2003/09/23 02:19:09 albertel Exp $
+# $Id: lonlocal.pm,v 1.15 2003/09/28 03:02:36 www Exp $
 #
 # Copyright Michigan State University Board of Trustees
 #
@@ -144,11 +144,6 @@ like this:
     'No purchase necessary. Illegal where not allowed.'
  => 'Es ist erlaubt, einfach zu verlieren, und das ist Ihre Schuld.'
 
-The German translation lexicon is in pretty okay shape, but not 
-complete yet. Portuguese currently only covers the login screen. 
-Russian is purely experimental. Looks like UTF-8 is the way to encode 
-this, at least for latin/greek-based languages, but we still have to 
-learn a lot.
 
 Comments may be added with the # symbol, which outside of a string
 (the things with the apostrophe surrounding them, which are the 
@@ -168,6 +163,8 @@ package Apache::lonlocal;
 use strict;
 use Apache::localize;
 use Apache::File;
+use locale;
+use POSIX qw(locale_h);
 
 require Exporter;
 
@@ -228,6 +225,18 @@ sub current_encoding {
     }
 }
 
+# =============================================================== Which locale?
+# Refer to locale -a
+#
+sub current_locale {
+    if ($lh) {
+	my $enc=$lh->maketext('lang_locale');
+	return ($enc eq 'lang_locale'?'':$enc);
+    } else {
+	return undef;
+    }
+}
+
 # ============================================================== Translate hash
 
 sub texthash {
@@ -268,10 +277,7 @@ sub get_language_handle {
     if (&Apache::lonnet::mod_perl_version == 1) {
 	$r->content_languages([&current_language()]);
     }
-    my $enc=&current_encoding();
-    if ($enc) {
-
-    }
+    setlocale(LC_ALL,&current_locale);
 }
 
 1;