Re: gettext CTYPE for libc

From: Thomas Rast <tr@thomasrast.ch>
Date: Nov 24, 2013, 09:05 UTC
Message-ID: <874n72goem.fsf@linux-k42r.v.cablecom.net>
In-Reply-To: <52900FD6.5020202@gmail.com>

Trần Ngọc Quân <vnwildman@gmail.com> writes:

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> $ git status
> fatal: Unable to read current working directory: Kh?ng c? t?p tin ho?c
> th? m?c nh? v?y
>
> So, somthing wrong with our charset.

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> $ gettext --domain=libc "No such file or directory"
> Không có tập tin hoặc thư mục như vậy
>
> in git's gettext.c, it not allow CTYPE="" for all domain, so we will set
> this one individually. In this ex. I set it for libc:
>
> $ git diff
> diff --git a/gettext.c b/gettext.c
> index 71e9545..abd3978 100644
> --- a/gettext.c
> +++ b/gettext.c
> @@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ static void init_gettext_charset(const char *domain)
>         setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "");
>         charset = locale_charset();
>         bind_textdomain_codeset(domain, charset);
> +       bind_textdomain_codeset("libc", charset);
>         setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "C");
>  }

Do you know why this "suddenly" broke? The long comment in init_gettext_charset() suggests that the *existing* code is there to handle exactly this problem, and apparently it doesn't. Why? Has libc moved the perror() strings into a separate domain in some version?

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Thomas Rast
tr@thomasrast.ch