Re: lynx-dev gettext troubles

[Bjoern JACKE]

On 2003-10-21 at 15:39 +0200 Gisle Vanem sent off:
> But GNU gettext is IMHO "a package from hell"! 
> I don't get anything but english texts.

gettext isn't that bad, there are much worse pieces of 
software on your machine.


> I've done:
> 1. set $LANG=da  (because the no.po file is so incomplete)
>
> 2. set $LYNX_LOCALEDIR=g:\MingW32\share\locale
> (BTW why isn't this used for djgpp?)
>
> 3. Built the ./po/*mo files and copied 'po/da.mo' to 
>  g:\MingW32\share\locale\da\LC_MESSAGES\lynx.mo
>
> I've studied the gettext docs to no avail. What could 
> be wrong? How do I debug the gettext stuff?

you should also study something about locales like this:

http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/suse-cjk/locales.html

"da" is no valid POSIX locale. Do you mean da_DK?
Does that work better for you?

Bjoern

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