Re: how to mimic which language?

[Bruno Haible]

Joshua N Pritikin writes:
> i need to do some translation lookups outside of gettext.  Even so, i want to
> preserve the configuration mechanism as much as possible.  For example:
> 
>   LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 LANGUAGE=mr ./redael
> 
> In this case, en_US.utf8 is the locale but text is rendered in Marathi (mr)
> if available.  Is there a library call to mimic this logic?

Not directly. It's probably best if you copy the function
guess_category_value from dcigettext.c.

Another possibility is to use gettext() instead of bypassing it. This
way, your translators can use the fancy tools (KBabel, Emacs po-mode,
...) to localize your program.

Bruno