Re: [Bug report] Git incorrectly selects language in macos

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Nate Weaver wrote:
>>> On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 10:20 PM Niko Dzhus <primenico@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>>>> Looks like the issue appeared after updating git from brew.
[...]
>>>> A quick search revealed that brew changed how it builds git recently.
>>>> I think, it just didn't include i18n by default before, so I never
>>>> noticed this.
[...]
> Upon further digging, this is an issue in gettext's code on macOS:
> The function _nl_language_preferences_default (in langprefs.c) specifically
> breaks early when it sees the literal string "en" in the list (from the
> "AppleLanguages" defaults key), but not when it gets "en-US", etc.
>
> I.e., it doesn't check for a prefix.
>
> This can be fixed (though there might be a better way) simply by replacing
> both instances of
>
> if (strcmp (buf, "en") == 0)
>
> with
>
> if (strncmp (buf, "en", 2) == 0)
>
> in gettext's langprefs.c.

Nice sleuthing.  Do you have a bug tracking this in homebrew's issue
tracker, either for the git formula or the gettext formula?

Thanks,
Jonathan



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