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| From: | Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales | ||
| Date: | Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:11:46 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20100625180518.GB21445@nibiru.local | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales by Christopher Swift |
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| 1 | * Christopher Swift <christopher.swift@×××××.com> wrote: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | > Is it at all possible to set a locale, i.e. cy_GB to be the primary LANG |
| 4 | > parameter but if there is no .po for cy_GB or the .po is incomplete to |
| 5 | > use en_GB as a backup instead of the default en_US? |
| 6 | |
| 7 | gettext allows to specify fallback languages: |
| 8 | |
| 9 | http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#The-LANGUAGE-variable |
| 10 | |
| 11 | Actually, I dont know if this works for your situation. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | Conceptionally, you want some kind of overlay. You could do this |
| 14 | by a little script, which compiles several locales to a "virtual" |
| 15 | one, eg. by creating symlinks or compiling to new .po files |
| 16 | using msmerge: |
| 17 | |
| 18 | http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#Updating |
| 19 | |
| 20 | BUT: these files would become dynamic data, which is not handled |
| 21 | (eg. automatic removed on uninstall) by portage. |
| 22 | |
| 23 | |
| 24 | cu |
| 25 | -- |
| 26 | --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 27 | Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ |
| 28 | --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 29 | Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: |
| 30 | http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce |
| 31 | Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: |
| 32 | http://patches.metux.de/ |
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