On 08/19/07 15:45, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
>> On 08/19/07 12:43, Anssi Hannula wrote:
>>> Anssi Hannula wrote:
>>> It seems that it *does* work, i.e. LANGUAGE=de, LANGUAGE=fr, LANGUAGE=fi
>>> will work even if there is no such locale at all.
>>>
>>> I copied a .mo file into /usr/share/locale/testtest/LC_MESSAGES/, which
>>> certainly is not a valid locale, and using LANGUAGE=testtest it was
>>> correctly used! :)
>> Looks good. However, after some tests it would appear as if only the
>> very first setenv() call actually changes anything. Subsequent calls
>> have no further effect, and gettext() always returns the language
>> that was selected in the very first call to setenv().
>
> The gettext info page says:
>
> But there is one little hook. The code for gcc-2.7.0 and up
> provides some optimization. This optimization normally prevents
> the calling of the `dcgettext' function as long as no new catalog
> is loaded. But if `dcgettext' is not called the program also
> cannot find the `LANGUAGE' variable be changed (*note Optimized
> gettext::). A solution for this is very easy. Include the
> following code in the language switching function.
>
> /* Change language. */
> setenv ("LANGUAGE", "fr", 1);
>
> /* Make change known. */
> {
> extern int _nl_msg_cat_cntr;
> ++_nl_msg_cat_cntr;
> }
Great! This works well!
Klaus
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