Re: RFP: externalize *all* locale-specific information

From: Christian Biesinger (cbiesinger@web.de)
Date: Tue Apr 30 2002 - 03:34:43 EDT

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    On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 08:20:57AM +0100, Andrew Dunbar wrote:
    > --- Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@web.de> wrote: >
    > > In general, it should be possible to do
    > > setlocale(LC_MESSAGES,
    > > "your_locale"), unless the approach above is used.
    >
    > The problem is the OS doesn't necessarily support
    > the locale as a whole. I'm not sure if this will be
    > a problem or not.

    This might indeed be a problem... I don't know what setlocale does if it
    doesn't know the locale.

    > For example, our current system
    > makes GUI strings possible in Welsh but if we do a
    > setlocale() call, what will happen for dates,
    > collation, etc?

    That depends on how you call setlocale(); if you do it as in my example,
    only messages/strings will be changed. That's what the LC_MESSAGES means.
     From the manpage:
           LC_MESSAGES
                  for localizable natural-language messages. 

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