Re: FW: Question on usage of gettext

[Bruno Haible]

Hi,

Rodney Courtney wrote in
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gettext/2020-11/msg00030.html>:
> We are on AIX 7.1
> We are calling gettext in Bourne Shell
> When we go to pull a message back with gettext on some languages we only get 
> the ID back.
> These languages happen to be Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Russian.
> I have confirmed the messages actual exist in the PO file for each language.
> Other languages such as English, Italian, Swedish return the same message 
> fine.

Indeed, AIX has a couple of locale names that GNU gettext did not support
so far. Such as for Chinese:
  zh_Hans_CN.UTF-8
  zh_Hans_SG.UTF-8
  zh_Hant_HK.UTF-8
  zh_Hant_TW.UTF-8
I have now added support for these locale names. [1]

But regarding Japanese, Korean, Russian, this can't have been the problem.
Please make sure that the locale name that you have specified (such as
ja_JP.UTF-8, ko_KR.UTF-8, ru_RU.UTF-8) is listed among the output of
'locale -a'.

Bruno

[1] 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gettext.git;a=commitdiff;h=68fce701270d13d077444dec865ae212eb9a56c2