Re: Changing language multiple times in one process

[Francis Irving]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 11:33:50AM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
> > I've discovered a problem with the tsearch code in intl/dcigettext.c.
> > It caches the results of queries, but does not check against the
> > language. This means that sometimes you get the results from the wrong
> > language back again.
> 
> You need to call  textdomain (textdomain (NULL))  in order to make gettext
> aware of the change. Just setting an environment variable doesn't tell
> gettext() to invalidate its cache.

Thanks Bruno, that works.

Could you make a note to add some more in the documentation about
this? 

It could be in the documentation for the "gettext" command, explaining
how it reads LANG. Or in a section on caching.

Francis