Bug#162699: gettext: support for extracting translations from different languages would be nice (fwd)

[Santiago Vila]

Hello.

Another report from Andrew. This one is of wishlist type.

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Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 20:22:38 +0100
From: Andrew Suffield <address@hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <address@hidden>
Subject: #162699: gettext: support for extracting translations from
    different languages would be nice

Package: gettext
Version: 0.11.5-1
Severity: wishlist

[Where else can stuff like this go? There don't seem to be *any*
mailing lists for gettext]

I have a need to acquire the translations of messages from multiple
different locales. One approach to this is to call setlocale() or
setenv() a lot... but this is unnecessarily inconvinient, especially
when you don't want to disturb the current locale (so you have to
query it, store, change, gettext(), and restore the locale). Plus,
setlocale() and setenv() have undesireable side-effects.

Looking at the code in dcigettext.c, it seems that the best place to
handle this would be in gettext itself, directly. All that is needed
(for my purposes) is an extension to the API, adding a new function
(plus associated wrappers) that can take a direct parameter for
categoryvalue instead of calling guess_category_value().