Bug#931456: libc6: uselocale(3) does not invalidate gettext translation cache

[Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>]

on Fri, 5 Jul 2019 14:23:09 +0300 Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org> wrote:
> Package: libc6
> Version: 2.28-10

  [..........]

> Any insight would be welcome. I can take this upstream but would of
> course be happy for the maintainers to do that :)

For the R project (https://www.R-project.org/) we've stumbled over
this issue as well in our bugzilla
https://bugs.r-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18055 and work around it by
calling setlocale(3) just for the sake of cache flushing.

So yes, we'd also be happy if this was eventually fixed in the
gettext-library implementations.

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