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Electron locales, showing that electron does not allow "eo" through to the app.
[electron-app-shell-env] savanni@garnet:~/s/electron-app $ locale
LANG=eo.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="eo.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="eo.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="eo.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="eo.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="eo.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="eo.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="eo.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="eo.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="eo.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="eo.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="eo.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="eo.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=eo.UTF-8
[electron-app-shell-env] savanni@garnet:~/s/electron-app $ npm start
> electron-app@1.0.0 start /home/savanni/src/electron-app
> electron .
LOCALE: en-US
[electron-app-shell-env] savanni@garnet:~/s/electron-app $ export LANG=de-DE
[electron-app-shell-env] savanni@garnet:~/s/electron-app $ export LC_ALL=de_DE
[electron-app-shell-env] savanni@garnet:~/s/electron-app $ locale
LANG=de-DE
LC_CTYPE="de_DE"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE"
LC_TIME="de_DE"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE"
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE"
LC_PAPER="de_DE"
LC_NAME="de_DE"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE"
LC_ALL=de_DE
[electron-app-shell-env] savanni@garnet:~/s/electron-app $ npm start
> electron-app@1.0.0 start /home/savanni/src/electron-app
> electron .
LOCALE: de
[electron-app-shell-env] savanni@garnet:~/s/electron-app $
const { app } = require('electron')
app.whenReady().then(() => {
console.log('LOCALE: ', app.getLocale())
app.quit()
})
{
"name": "electron-app",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "",
"main": "main.js",
"scripts": {
"start": "electron ."
},
"keywords": [],
"author": "",
"license": "ISC",
"devDependencies": {
"electron": "^12.0.0"
}
}
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