RE: FW: Question on usage of gettext

[Rodney Courtney]

Thank you for the response.
Seems we do not have all the locales needed on our system.

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From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2020 10:05 AM
To: Rodney Courtney <Rodney.Courtney@mouser.com>
Cc: bug-gnu-gettext@gnu.org
Subject: Re: FW: Question on usage of gettext

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Hi,

Rodney Courtney wrote in
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__lists.gnu.org_archive_html_bug-2Dgettext_2020-2D11_msg00030.html&d=DwICAg&c=vY6N1du11amUSmqXT2U6Yqw6I-si6nWulSErsUHFzRg&r=AuY41A716KwiYdVpYdoQG5kcTXYT5Uv_igZa8lyyrGU&m=are7C0GH3v323fBOsdwjje8akPIfqWYhdSWew7cC98k&s=ei31lRnxXQVX_MomITfvhDQeBUUcvHOkJsqG5V5ewQU&e=
 >:
> 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://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__git.savannah.gnu.org_gitweb_-3Fp-3Dgettext.git-3Ba-3Dcommitdiff-3Bh-3D68fce701270d13d077444dec865ae212eb9a56c2&d=DwICAg&c=vY6N1du11amUSmqXT2U6Yqw6I-si6nWulSErsUHFzRg&r=AuY41A716KwiYdVpYdoQG5kcTXYT5Uv_igZa8lyyrGU&m=are7C0GH3v323fBOsdwjje8akPIfqWYhdSWew7cC98k&s=Hgy25N_9iX0D_I3m7lx-sXa6IYIvAHJ84Gd4bTeFuWQ&e=



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