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

[Bruno Haible]

> > Plus, setlocale() and setenv() have undesireable side-effects.
> 
> You don't need setenv if you pass the locale name as argument to
> setlocale().

Note that you can omit the setenv() only on glibc systems. On other
systems, with libintl, you indeed need both setenv() and setlocale()
if you want gettext() to obey a different locale.

Bruno