Locale (Was: gencat)

[Valeriy E. Ushakov]

Hello, localized and unlocalized people!

On Sat, 20 May 1995, Ian Jackson curiously wrote:

> Ted Harding writes ("Re: gencat"):
> > ( Re Message From: rodrigo vanegas )
> > > My system (Linux) doesn't have /usr/bin/gencat. Is this going to be a
> > > problem?
> > 
> > My Linux system doesn't have gencat either, and loout doesn't seem to be
> > bothered.
> 
> Indeed.  However, you've got me all curious now.  What is gencat ?
> 
> Ian.

Have you heard of locale? Probably not, since both of you are from
*.uk This is from Ultrix manual, you'll find similar words anywhere:

                                                                 gencat(1int)

   Name
     gencat - generate a formatted message catalog

   Syntax
     gencat catalog_file [source_file ...]

   Description
     The gencat    command takes one or more message source files and either
     creates a new catalog or merges new message text into an existing cata-
     log.

Lout use it if compiled with USE_LOCALE to produce a catalog of
localized messages (LC_MESSAGES category), see a makefile for details.
Since all of you are English speakers you'll probably never stumble
across this :-) (I'm not an english speaker, still I prefer native
english messages so I don't use LC_MESSAGES either).

BTW, since we're speaking about locale anyway, I have a question to
Jeff. Why Lout don't use LC_COLLATE category to sort indices? (well to
sort @Key'ed galleys in fact).

Best regards!

SY, Uwe.
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