Re: Gettext and LC_MESSAGES

[Changwoo Ryu <cwryu@idis.co.kr>]

Tomohiro KUBOTA <kubota@surfchem0.riken.go.jp> writes:

[..]
> There should be two discussions: (1) Why setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, "de")
> fails?  Should we improve locale database to have "de" locale?

Because the glibc maintainer decided so.  There is no locale db named
as "de" in glibc.  But the message catalogs are stored in "de"....

> (2) Why German message is displayed while setlocale() fails?  Is this
> a bug of gettext or glibc?

Gettext does not depends on the success of setlocale().  I guess this
is because some systems lack setlocale().

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Changwoo Ryu