Re: Getting a list of available locales

[Anssi Hannula]

Anssi Hannula wrote:
> Hi!
>
> The VDR project (GPL set-top-box style software) has an option in the 
> setup menu to change the language (as commercial devices do). Previously 
> a custom translation scheme was used, but using gettext would be 
> preferable for many reasons.
>
> However, having the ability to switch language during run-time is 
> problematic; setlocale() can only be called with specific locale names, 
> that vary depending on system. The correct one could be "fi", "fi_FI", 
> address@hidden" etc.
>
> It would help if there was some call that would return all the installed 
> locales in "locale -a" style.
> Even better would be a call that returns a list of the locales that have 
> a translation for a given text domain.
>
> Is providing such a function a possibility? Should it be implemented in 
> gettext, or glibc?
>
> Or is there another option we have missed?

Apparently there was. Using LANGUAGE variable is independant from the 
actually installed locales, so it can be used to select a language.

Getting a list of languages that have the .mo file would still be 
useful, but not that critical anymore as that can be found out ourselves.

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Anssi Hannula