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Re: localename: Fix gettext test failures on mingw
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: localename: Fix gettext test failures on mingw |
Date: |
Mon, 26 Nov 2018 18:04:09 +0200 |
> From: Bruno Haible <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 19:27:44 +0100
>
> > It defines symbols based on LC_MESSAGES and exposes them
> > to Scheme.
>
> What was the problem with that? Since guile is based on the
> platform's runtime + gnulib, not the platform's runtime alone,
> what issue actually arose?
I think I recalled what was the problem: Guile used gettext, but
didn't import setlocale from Gnulib (and it's possible that the then
version of Gnulib's setlocale didn't really handle LC_MESSAGES).
But even the current version of Gnulib's setlocale does nothing with
LC_MESSAGES on MS-Windows, so pepole who expect that to work as on
Posix platforms are in for a surprise.
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- Re: localename: Fix gettext test failures on mingw, Bruno Haible, 2018/11/24
- Re: localename: Fix gettext test failures on mingw, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/11/24
- Re: localename: Fix gettext test failures on mingw, Bruno Haible, 2018/11/24
- Re: localename: Fix gettext test failures on mingw, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/11/25
- Re: localename: Fix gettext test failures on mingw, Bruno Haible, 2018/11/25
- Re: localename: Fix gettext test failures on mingw, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/11/25
- Re: localename: Fix gettext test failures on mingw,
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