Re: BUG #4186: set lc_messages does not work

Gevik Babakhani wrote:
> My apologies on this late reply.
> The way LC_MESSAGES is handled on windows is much less efficient and faulty.
> While ago I started with a patch to fix some of the issues I encountered on
> windows and LC_MESSAGES. But I stopped working on that patch because this
> problem needed to be fixed on many other places. In Windows, handling
> LC_MESSAGES will not work the same way as *nix systems, forcing us to make
> ugly workarounds. (as I actually was doing with my patch)
>
> To my opinion, unless we think of a coherent solution for handling
> LC_MESSAGES/locale for both *nix and win32 platforms, fixing lc_messages and
> locale issues would break more than fixing it.
>
> BTW: The gettext library we are using on win32 is a very old one.

This is the most recent posting on the topic, I think. Status?

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>
> Regards,
> Gevik.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Magnus Hagander [mailto:magnus(at)hagander(dot)net]
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 4:54 PM
> > To: Bruce Momjian
> > Cc: Tom Lane; Thomas H.; pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org; Gevik Babakhani
> > Subject: Re: [BUGS] BUG #4186: set lc_messages does not work
> >
> > Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > Tom Lane wrote:
> > >> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> > >>> Thomas H. wrote:
> > >>>> so at least that explains the "changed" behaviour. nevertheless,
> > >>>> LC_MESSAGES seems to be defunct - with the "locale"
> > folder present,
> > >>>> pg always picks the os' language and ignores the
> > lc_message value.
> > >>> This looks like I can reproduce though, at least on cvs head. Did
> > >>> this work for you in previous versions?
> > >> Maybe we were using a different build of gettext in the previous
> > >> releases, one that didn't look at the same info as the
> > current code?
> > >>
> > >> Anyway the patch mentioned at the start of the thread
> > >> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-02/msg00038.php
> > >> purports to fix this. It doesn't seem to have gotten reviewed
> > >> though.
> > >
> > > Agreed. Magnus, someone, can we get feedback on the patch
> > at this URL?
> > >
> > >
> > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-02/msg00038.php
> >
> > IIRC, there was further work to be done on the patch before
> > it was to be applied, and we held off the review until then.
> >
> > Gevik - can you comment on this? Where are we, what needs ot
> > be done still?
> >
> > //Magnus
> >

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