[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#2374) multi-language client-server patch

["Jason Short via RT" <rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

mateusz stefek via RT wrote:
> Dnia 2003.01.23 23:07 Jason Short via RT napisa³(a):
> 
>>mateusz stefek via RT wrote:
>>
>>>See incoming/fims.tgz
>>>
>>>I've spent many hours writing and testing it, so have fun
>>
>>Ok, one more final question...
>>
>>It has been pointed out that you could translate into the client's
>>locale at the server end.  That is, the client could send the server
>>their $LANG and the server could translate directly into that
>>language.

> There is one problem,
> How can you tell gettext that you wan't to use other language?
> dcgettext isn't good enough for this.
> I think that the only solution is to use included and patched gettext.

Oops, I knew that...

I've seen it done that the program manually changes the locale, calls 
gettext to translate into that locale, then changes the locale back (if 
necessary).  Needless to say, this is ugly - and probably error-prone 
since you're counting on the locale being configured correctly.

jason