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| Reporter | Love4Boobies | Assigned To | | |
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| Priority | normal | Severity | Objection | Type | Omission |
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| Status | New | Resolution | Open | |
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| Name | Bogdan Barbu |
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| Section | gettext, ngettext |
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| Page Number | https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/gettext.html |
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| Line Number | N/A |
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| Summary | 0001952: (n)gettext and NLSPATH |
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| Description | On XSI systems, gettext and ngettext require NLSPATH to take precedence over TEXTDOMAINDIR. This is undesirable because it means every one-off script using translations has to install its translation files in the system's global locale directory. Should such scripts instead choose to change NLSPATH to, say, a local subdirectory then all other utilities used by the script (including gettext/ngettext) would lose access to their own translations. Imagine a situation where in order to use an install script you have to first install its messages/catalogs. |
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| Desired Action | NLSPATH should control gettext/ngettext's own translations (e.g., diagnostics messages).
TEXTDOMAINDIR should control the translations requested of gettext/ngettext. If it's not set, maybe then fall back to NLSPATH. |
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| Tags | No tags attached. |
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