Re: libintl adjusting local search paths by environment variable

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Witold,

> It would be nice to use unmodified binary, and prepend search paths.
> 
> GETTEXT_PATHS=adriconf=/home/user/.loca/share/locale
> 
> to adjust the search path.
> 
> or
> 
> GETTEXT_GMO=adriconf=./pl.gmo
> 
> to force directly a specific translation, independent of what
> LC_MESSAGES / LANG / LC_ALL / LANGUAGE says.
> 
> or something like that.
> 
> Both of these env variables could contain multiple domains (probably
> separated by colon as it is used to).
> 
> Is it already possible, and where it is documented?
>
> (requirements: no root, no program recompile).

It is already possible, albeit through a hack: In LANGUAGE, you can specify
a relative file name of a language directory.

For example, if you have a modified coreutils.mo sitting in
  /tmp/mylocale/pl/coreutils.mo
you can run

  LANGUAGE=../../../../../tmp/mylocale/pl some-coreutils-program

Yes, it is silly that relative file names are accepted but absolute
file names don't work...

Bruno