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Re: how to mimic which language?
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Bruno Haible |
Subject: |
Re: how to mimic which language? |
Date: |
Mon, 18 Feb 2002 17:44:55 +0100 (CET) |
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.
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.
Bruno