NLS additions to I18N chapter of developers-handbook [Was: Re: svn commit: r189765 - in head: . lib/libc lib/libc/nls]

[Gábor Kövesdán]

Rene Ladan escribió:
> Gábor Kövesdán schreef:
>> Rene Ladan escribió:
>>> Gábor Kövesdán schreef:
>>>> Robert Watson escribió:
>>>>> Do you have any advice on what to do for libraries that provide 
>>>>> error strings in their own error spaces?  Is it intended that the 
>>>>> library's init and destroy functions will open and close 
>>>>> catalogues?  Will this work if the application the library is used 
>>>>> by doesn't know about catalogues?  Etc...
>>>> I've made one more little addition, which can be useful to spare 
>>>> with error strings. :)
>>>> http://kovesdan.org/patches/nls-doc2.diff
>>>>
>>>
>>> Looks nice.  I corrected a few minor mistakes in the attached patch.
>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> On my 8.0 box with localized libc, I get the English message when
>>> setting errno to ENOTDIR and calling err(1, NULL) in a test program.
>>> Is this to be expected?
>> No, something's wrong there. Are you sure LC_MESSAGES or LC_ALL is 
>> set correctly? Here I get this:
>>
>>  > ./sort -T fre
>> sort: Not a directory
>>  > env LC_ALL=hu_HU.ISO8859-2 ./sort -T fre
>> sort: Nem könyvtár
>>  > env LC_ALL=nl_NL.ISO8859-1 ./sort -T fre
>> sort: Dit is geen directory
>>
> I sometimes still get English messages even when I set both LC_ALL and
> LC_MESSAGES to nl_NL.ISO8859-1 :
> > echo $SHELL
> /bin/tcsh
> > ls bla
> ls: bla: Bestand of map niet gevonden
> > notacommand
> notacommand: Command not found
>
> output of { errno = ENOTDIR; err(1, NULL); } :
> do-err: Not a directory
>
> svn revision 189775
>
That's strange. Could you please paste your complete env so that I can 
try to reproduce?

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