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bug #26483: RFE: Retrieve translation of a specific locale without calling setlocale()

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Thu 07 May 2009 01:37:14 PM UTC
Votes: 1
 
Category:  Programmer interface Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  None Status:  Confirmed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  haible
Open/Closed:  Open

Thu 07 May 2009 10:43:58 PM UTC, comment #1: 

You are right. But it's hard to find an API that is at the
same time close to glibc APIs and easy to implement portably.

For something close to glibc APIs, there is the rejected
proposal in
  http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2005-04/msg00123.html

If only the glibc platforms are targeted, uselocale and gettext
do the trick:
  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2006-06/msg00037.html

If portability is desired, we tried to port the locale_t type
to all platforms here, but abandoned it:
  http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/giulia/trunk/glocale/libintl/

What is the right way to proceed on this issue?

Bruno Haible <haible>
Group administrator
Thu 07 May 2009 01:37:14 PM UTC, original submission:  

A very useful enhancement to gettext would be the availability of an interface such as:
char *lgettext(const char *locale, const char *msg_id)

This would allow the caller to specify, just for the duration of this call to gettext, which locale to use.

Being able to avoid the use of setlocale() would significantly reduce the risk of synchronization bugs in threaded programs.

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