Re: [Libexif-devel] Character sets in libexif, exif, GTK and other applications

[Lutz <lu...@us...>]

On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 13:03 +0200, Hans Ulrich Niedermann wrote:
> > I don't like the static variable in exif_init_gettext at all. Is
>=20
> (Note for reference: "static" means "global" here.)
>=20
> Why don't you like it?

They are evil in combination with threads. glibc does proper locking, so
let's glibc take care of that.
=20
> > "bindtextdomain" that expensive that we can't call it in every functi=
on
> > that returns strings?
>=20
> IMHO, yes. It has to search the filesystem for files.

As far as I can see in glibc/intl/bindtextdom.c, it first checks if the
value changed.

Anyways, everything the frontend needs to know in order to get proper
translation is GETTEXT_PACKAGE and LOCALEDIR. What about creating a
libexif/exif-config.h file with those variables?

/*=20
 * You need to call bindtextdomain & friends first=20
 * with those variables if you would like to=20
 * get proper translations.
 */=20
#define EXIF_GETTEXT_PACKAGE "libexif-12"
#define EXIF_GETTEXT_LOCALEDIR "/some/path"

/* Name, version... */
#define EXIF_PACKAGE_NAME "..."
#define EXIF_PACKAGE_VERSION "..."


Regards
--=20
Lutz M=FCller <lu...@us...>