From: Christian Biesinger (cbiesinger@web.de)
Date: Tue Apr 30 2002 - 03:07:34 EDT
Firstly, would it be possible to not CC me on mails to the list?
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 04:59:45AM +0100, Andrew Dunbar wrote:
> --- Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@web.de> wrote: >
> > 1) With gettext, the en-US translation is always
> > built in (well, needs not
> > be en-US, but usually is)
> > 2) on startup of a gettextized app, gettext is
> > initialized with the
> > language from an environment variable (note that I
>
> Note that this is not good enough for AbiWord. We
> currently have a locale override in our profile so
> we can support locales the OS doesn't.
Hm, I am not sure if this can be done with gettext.
This feature might be useful there:
If the LANGUAGE environment variable is set to a nonempty value, and the locale is not the "C" locale, the value of
LANGUAGE is assumed to contain a colon separated list of locale names. The functions will attempt to look up a transla
tion of msgid in each of the locales in turn. This is a GNU extension.
> > don't know how this is
> > done on windows - ie. maybe another approach is used
>
> On Windows we have our own code to map from Windows
> locale to AbiWord locale (which is similar to but not
> identical to Unix locale). On any OS we really need
> to pass the locale we determine onto gettext.
In general, it should be possible to do setlocale(LC_MESSAGES,
"your_locale"), unless the approach above is used.
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