Re: Using gettext for runtime translations

[Torsten Bronger]

Hallöchen!

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> [...]
>
> Portability of LANGUAGE: No portability problem is known, since
> LANGUAGE is only considered by libintl, not by system code.

Okay, I think I understand it now much better.  However, I have two
possibilities:

First, the gettext manual suggests to set LANGUAGE with setenv(),
with flushing the cache:

            /* Change language.  */
            setenv ("LANGUAGE", "fr", 1);
          
            /* Make change known.  */
            {
              extern int  _nl_msg_cat_cntr;
              ++_nl_msg_cat_cntr;
            }

Below this code excerpts, it says:

     The variable `_nl_msg_cat_cntr' is defined in `loadmsgcat.c'.
     You don't need to know what this is for.  But it can be used to
     detect whether a `gettext' implementation is GNU gettext and
     not non-GNU system's native gettext implementation.

Does this mean that there are non-GNU gettexts out there and that
that excerpt would break on such systems?  Or is this dealt with by
the Autotools?


And secondly, I have
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2003-12/msg00023.html
which unsets LANGUAGE and sets LC_ALL instead.  I assume that if you
only want to adjust gettext messages, it doesn't matter.  But there
are two things that I don't understand: Why doesn't this code care
about the gettext cache?  And why does it call setlocale() which the
above excerpt doesn't do?

Tschö,
Torsten.

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