Re: Message localization [Was: Re: [musl] Adjustments to roadmap]

[Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>]

On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 09:26:57AM +0700, Рысь wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Sep 2015 00:47:30 -0400
> Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 11:26:55AM +0700, Рысь wrote:
> > > This is what I get when running musl 1.1.11 without patches
> > > (untouched):
> > > 
> > > % MUSL_LOCPATH=/tmp/l LC_ALL=ru_RU ./lib/libc.so ../date
> > > Tue Sep  1 11:22:31 2015
> > > 
> > > I attached strace output as well as compiled ru_RU data.
> > 
> > The mo file is broken; it looks like it was produced with the buggy
> > msgfmt from the sabotage repo that outputs the strings in the order
> > they were in the source, rather than sorting them. If you write a
> > perl/awk/whatever script to pre-sort them you should be able to get by
> > with this msgfmt; otherwise, you could use the GNU version or try the
> > other branch of gettext-tiny.
> 
> How to sort strings (or there is a script I don't know about)? Because I
> can't use gnu version, and using gettext-tiny which was not updated for
> 3 years. Or there is another version with this feature implemented?

It was in gettext-tiny but then reverted because making msgfmt work
exposed other limitations in it. You can check out the
second-to-newest version or the 'full' branch that still has a working
version.

Rich