----- "Sean Flanigan" <sflaniga@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ulrich Drepper wrote: > > Sean Flanigan wrote: > >> Would there be any interest in getting something like this into > glibc? > > > > Hell, no. There is no room for testing code in the runtime. > <snip> > Is the implementation of "fetch translations from MO files under > /usr/share/locale/" hard-coded? If there's already a nice > programmatic > hook I could use, even better. If I could register locale-specific > overrides of gettext(), I could add any number of dynamically > generated > locales. It is set by bindtextdomain(). Somewhat related, look at a previous discussion relating to Ubuntu's patched glibc for supporting language-packs: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2005-03/msg00105.html > A gettext() hook could also be used to fetch translations from other > sources, such as a shared, up-to-date, translation database. I think > that has the potential to be useful to a lot of people, not just > developers and testers. > > It doesn't really make sense to generate thousands of pseudo PO > files, > and compile them into static MOs, when all the required data (ie > English > text) is available at runtime. > > Let me change my question then. How would people feel about having a > hook to override the behaviour of gettext() in a system-wide fashion? I guess you could experiment with LD_PRELOAD for this. Tim Foster experimented with this a while a go. http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/how_much_translation_do_you cheers, asgeir -- Fedora-i18n-list mailing list Fedora-i18n-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-i18n-list
