From: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: gettext and locale names
Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 17:39:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160504213938.GV21636@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA-4+jcC7aM8XWo6gRVgfqD-WFC3ODvQYSMLdcJWK9wu9sgNbQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 10:05:28PM +0900, Masanori Ogino wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When I played with gettext API, I found that musl searches .mo files
> with a directory named as current *full* locale names, e.g.
> en_US.UTF-8. However, we often use shortened names too. Here is a list
> of those names from those of my machine in /usr/share/locale: de,
> en_GB, ru_UA.koi8u, sr@latin, etc.
>
> Due to this mismatch, we can't get translations with musl's gettext
> API for applications in wild. Thus, I'm considering to implement
> locale searching with shortening. Does it make sense?
Yes, I think this makes sense. Before spending time on the code though
it makes sense to discuss the proposed logic here. What level would
the search/shortening happen at? __get_locale in locale_map.c? In
dcngettext.c?
Rich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-04 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-04 13:05 Masanori Ogino
2016-05-04 21:39 ` Rich Felker [this message]
2016-05-09 12:46 ` Masanori Ogino
2016-05-11 23:26 ` Rich Felker
2016-05-20 14:55 ` Masanori Ogino
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