I am an original author of musl-locales.

1. We need a solution for May month, because in some languages it have more
than 3 letters
2. I crafted those musl-po files mostly manually, with a little help of
gettext
3. We need to be able to translate currency and digital symbol somehow.

Maybe a solution is an embedding a .mo file into musl?

On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 2:02 AM Pablo Correa Gomez <
pabloyoyoista@postmarketos.org> wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> I've been working on musl-locales with the general goal of improving
> localization in musl. I'd hope that some of the locale-related patches
> in the pipeline could be merged if we improve the locales, and prove
> that we can maintain them.
>
> While going through the current status, I've realized that the ".pot"
> file contains a multitude of strings that are not supposed to be
> localized in musl (e.g: strings in src/misc/fmtmsg.c), and it has
> missing some others (like key-related errors from
> src/errno/__strerror.h). Manually crafting such a file is complete
> madness, and gettext can help here, but we need to be able to provide
> it with some way to identify what is a translatable string, as it does
> not understand static strings with '\0' as separator. I've come with an
> example of something that would work for gettext, but would maintain
> the behavior of static strings. Would this be something that might be
> considered, given a complete patch is provided?
>
> ==============================================================
> diff --git i/src/network/hstrerror.c w/src/network/hstrerror.c
> index a4d001c5..c86e3e8f 100644
> --- i/src/network/hstrerror.c
> +++ w/src/network/hstrerror.c
> @@ -3,11 +3,14 @@
>  #include "locale_impl.h"
>
>  static const char msgs[] =
> -       "Host not found\0"
> -       "Try again\0"
> -       "Non-recoverable error\0"
> -       "Address not available\0"
> -       "\0Unknown error";
> +#define MSG(m) m"\0"
> +       MSG("Host not found")
> +       MSG("Try again")
> +       MSG("Non-recoverable error")
> +       MSG("Address not available")
> +       "\0"
> +       MSG("Unknown error");
> +#undef MSG
>
>  const char *hstrerror(int ecode)
>  {
> ==============================================================
>
> Would probably mean applying the same logic to the relevant strings in
>
>  src/network/gai_strerror.c
>  src/network/hstrerror.c
>  src/regex/regerror.c
>  src/string/strsignal.c
>  src/locale/langinfo.c
>
> Anything else I might have missed?
>
> Best regards,
> Pablo Correa Gomez.
>