Re: how to mimic which language?

[Joshua N Pritikin]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 05:44:55PM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
> 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.

OK

> 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.

i am using gettext for 90% of my messages.  The other 10% need more
flexibility than gettext offers.

Thanks.

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