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Message-ID: <fe7659d8946aaae4803515689b1515c9c3076dea.camel@postmarketos.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:54:25 +0200
From: Pablo Correa Gomez <pabloyoyoista@...tmarketos.org>
To: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>, musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Updated dumplocale/source format [Re: Selecting locale
source format]
El Mon, 20-04-2026 a las 13:44 +0200, Pablo Correa Gomez escribió:
> >
> I have used the provided dumplocale.c file to transform the current locales
> into
> the new source format. It can all be found
> in https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/musl-locales Generally the
> whole
> thing was pretty straight-forward, and clearly it now allowed to fix the
> infamous "May" bug:
> https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/musl-locales/-
> /commit/374ea7d0164efcf1bc1f14701b1333a943837bd7
>
> Of course, the "May" bug is still present in all translations (but Spanish, my
> native language, that I have manually fixed), and things like the
> differentiation between H_ and H0 are not there either, since they were not
> there in the previous translations.
>
> I will start poking translators about this, to see if we find any issue that
> we
> didn't find earlier.
>
> Best,
> Pablo
> >
We've gotten quite some good feedback from the translators already. So far,
there are 2 questions that have come up as the most salient ones:
First, documentation on the keys to translate. I found good documentation for
the standard POSIX keys in[1] would be good to know if that's a good
authoritative source. However, I could not find such documentation for the error
codes in the LC_MESSAGES section. Most specifically, a translator had a question
abuot EAI_OVERFLOW, which in English is just "Overflow". Regardless of whether
the English string had to be improved, would be nice to have a good
authorizative source for those. Everything I could find were manual pages for
getnameinfo
Second, I was asked about the first day of the week. It seems that is a glibc
extension that can be queried passig "_NL_TIME_FIRST_WEEKDAY" to nl_langinfo[2].
Although this is obviously not in POSIX, I really wonder why is it not, when
it's something clearly tied to the system language. Indeed, I dag a bit into it,
only to realize that it works in my system due to the toolkit I used the most
having some ugly hack[3] working around this limitation. I would be pretty
interested if we could make sure that the source and binary format have enough
flexibility to support adding such potential use-case in the future, would POSIX
be updated to support such useful situation.
[1]
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap07.html#tag_07_03_03
[2] https://sites.uclouvain.be/SystInfo/usr/include/langinfo.h.html
[3] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/blob/main/po/es.po?ref_type=heads#L1898
>
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