Asgeir Frimannsson wrote: > ----- "Sean Flanigan" <sflaniga@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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 Thank you, Asgeir, that's just the information I needed. Looks like LD_PRELOAD won't work on suid binaries, but it should be possible to pseudo-localise 95% of packages without touching their build processes. -- Sean Flanigan Senior Software Engineer Engineering - Internationalisation Red Hat
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