Re: ITA freedict

[Bob Hilliard <hilliard@debian.org>]

Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> writes:

> If you set LOCPATH to the equivalent of /usr/lib/locale, and LC_ALL to
> the name of the locale you generate, you should get what you want
> without being root.  Something like this (mostly cut-n-paste from d-i
> build system):
>
>   # The variables
>   LOCALE_PATH=/tmp/usr/lib/locale
>   LOCALE_NAME=en_IN
>   LOCALE_CHARSET=UTF-8
>
>   # Generating the locale
>   mkdir -p $LOCALE_PATH
>   localedef -i "$LOCALE_NAME.$LOCALE_CHARSET" -f "$LOCALE_CHARSET" \
>      "$LOCALE_PATH/$LOCALE_NAME.$LOCALE_CHARSET"
>
>   # Using the locale
>   LOCPATH=$LOCALE_PATH LC_ALL=$LOCALE_NAME.$LOCALE_CHARSET date

Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net> added:

> Looks like this needs to be localedef -i "$LOCALE_NAME" -f "$LOCALE_CHARSET"
> instead, but otherwise, I've confirmed that this works.

     I need to use this locale as a command line argument to dictfmt
--locale.  dictfmt calls this locale with setlocale(3).  I have tried
--locale $(LOCALE_NAME).$(LOCALE_CHARSET) and --locale
$(LOCPATH)/$(LOCALE_NAME).$(LOCALE_CHARSET).  Both return invalid
locale, which is the error message dictfmt emits when it cannot open
the specified locale file.  The locale _is_ generated in
$LOCALE_PATH.

     Is the environment variable LOCPATH used by setlocale(3)?

     Can anyone suggest what I need to try to make this work?

Regards,

Bob
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