| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Gevik Babakhani <pgdev(at)xs4all(dot)nl> |
| Cc: | "'Tom Lane'" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "'Andrew Dunstan'" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, bruce(at)momjian(dot)us |
| Subject: | Re: NLS on MSVC strikes back! |
| Date: | 2008-02-12 16:44:58 |
| Message-ID: | 20080212164458.GN14683@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Gevik Babakhani wrote:
> 4. Locale names are different in MS Windows. I created a C app to test
> gettext on Windows.
> setting LC_MESSAGES to Spanisg_Spain and German_Germany works but es_ES and
> de_DE do not :(
>
> SET LC_MESSAGES to '....' has no effect because:
>
> A. gettext compiled/linked in MSVC looks for the locale of the current
> thread and NOT the LC_MESSAGES,LANGIAGE,LANG... environment variables. See
> gettext's sources....
>
> B. Given current thread's locale Spanish_Spain, gettext fails to find a
> directory called "Spanish_Spain" in share/locale. As result English names
> are returned.
What this really means is that locale support is completely broken in
the MSVC build, i.e. you cannot get localized strings at all (not just
to_char()). Is this correct? If so, this is a serious problem.
--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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