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

[Рысь <lynx@sibserver.ru>]

On Tue, 1 Sep 2015 22:28:56 -0400
Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> wrote:

> 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

Many Thanks!

Sorry for late feedback, now only had time to test it. It works!

% MUSL_LOCPATH=/tmp/l LC_ALL=ru_RU ./date
Пн Сен  7 20:47:05 2015

Meow!!

I guess there is a root of lack of translation in my case: many
programs use msgfmt and friends to make .mo from .po. So if I
want to solve the problem, I must "update" gettext-tiny then rebuild
all affected software. Am I right?