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sr #102913: Wishlist: multilanguage support

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Submitted:  Sun 14 Mar 2004 05:51:22 PM UTC
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Category:  None Priority:  5 - Normal
Severity:  1 - Wish Status:  Done
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  haible
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Sat 27 Oct 2018 01:10:06 AM UTC, comment #4: 

Yes, as explained in comment #3, the solution for this use-case are per-thread locales, nowadays standardized through the POSIX functions newlocale, duplocale, freelocale, and uselocale. gettext supports these per-thread locales on all platforms where they exist, namely: glibc systems, Mac OS X, FreeBSD 11, Solaris 11 (OpenIndiana or 11.4 or newer; this is relatively new), and probably AIX 7.

Bruno Haible <haible>
Group administrator
Thu 28 Feb 2013 10:45:24 AM UTC, comment #3: 

Actually, this is the main point for thread-specific setlocale(). You could run a thread for each user and set the locale to the selected one, while the main thread retains the system locale, but I think this should be done at Libc level.

Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas <m1gu3l>
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Wed 24 Jan 2007 08:18:34 PM UTC, comment #2: 

The problem with these language-swapping approaches - without really changing the locale with setlocale - is that you can produce inconsistent error messages:

    fprintf (STDERR, _"open failed: %s\n", strerror (errno));

The string "open failed: %s\n" will be translated into a string of a language and encoding selected by the application.  The interpolated string will be translated into a locale-dependent language and encoding.  The mixing of languages is only mildly repulsive to the end user, the mixing of encodings can be fatal.

If you can live with that, write a hack like you described.  If you can't live with it, there is no other way than really switching the locale with setlocale().

Cheers,
Guido

Anonymous
Wed 31 May 2006 07:36:49 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Could the problem perhaps be solved (or circumvented) by storing the .mo's in locale specific subdirectories?

/it_IT/messages.mo
/fr_CH/messages.mo

Other than that, I've longed for on-the-fly language swapping in KDE, Gnome and other software for a long time. As far as I can understand, this would/might open the door for such a thing (?).

Gudmund Areskoug <gudmund>
Sun 14 Mar 2004 05:51:22 PM UTC, original submission:  

I writing a multilanguage server application. The user can select
the language of interface. If I want to use gnu gettext, I have to make
fake domain for all languages (messages_it.po, messages_fr.po, ...)
and select them using bindtextdomain and dc
                                                                               
Please, you could add some multilanguage functions like
                                                                               
dclgettext(id, domain, category, language)
                                                                               
or
                                                                               
fgettext(id, file.mo)
?

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