Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] not quite done, sorry

[Albert C. <aca...@gm...>]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Bill Kendrick <nb...@so...> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 05:15:37AM -0500, Albert Cahalan wrote:
>> Current status:
>>
>> Lots of stuff is seriously cleaned up.
>
> So where are things now?

It's mostly good I think.

There is a nasty design flaw in the gettext library code.
If a locale is not 100% implemented (currency formats,
telephone formats, etc.) then the locale is forced to C.
The C locale is not UTF-8, and it disables translation.
Also, the default ("" and no environment variables) is C.
None of this is required by any standard; it's just broken.
I have no means to beat the stupid out of gettext/glibc.

The result is that languages like Zapotec are trouble.

Setting LANGUAGE does work, provided that you also
set LC_ALL to some random system-supported locale.
We can essentially call Zapotec a dialect of es_MX.
A trouble with this is that such a setting probably shouldn't
get passed to lpr.

Anybody going to a Linux conference? If so, please find
a glibc or gettext developer to pester in person.

On the bright side, there is potential for fallback languages.