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Message-ID: <Z5i-2amDx4VLU4hM@free.fr>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 12:26:17 +0100
From: Patrice Dumas <pertusus@...e.fr>
To: Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@...il.com>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>, musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: gettext LC_MESSAGES differences from other libc

On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 08:43:16PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > If you just want to process .mo files without going thru the locale
> > system, the necessary code is about 42 source lines/329 machine code
> > bytes that's MIT-licensed in musl that you're free to copy. This
> > probably makes the most sense.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion.  It is possible that we will end up doing
> this, if the current approach has more problems.

As a side note, I discussed with Guido Flohr, the maintainer of
libintl-perl in 2011 about this specific issue, as there is the same
issue from Perl when trying to use a language independent from the
locale.  At that time, he said that he had something in progress for a
more low-level and direct access to .mo files, but so far it did not
materialize.

-- 
Pat

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