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Is there a way to access the locale used by gettext under windows ?

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You can use setlocale(NULL) to pull the locale from the CRT. But from Windows, I've got no idea. Also, gettext is a pretty generic function and you're going to have to be more specific about what gettext.

DeadMG 2010-05-02 15:50:59

Not sure I understand your remark ... I'm translating strings with the gettext() function from gettext package ... at runtime it translate things fine both under GNU/Linux and windows in the two locales for which I have translated strings. However I need to know at runtime which is the locale of the user. I figured that since gettext (or maybe libintl ?) manages to do this, there must be a way to get it.

phtrivier 2010-05-02 15:54:55

So I tried this : setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, "");char * l = setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, NULL);printf("Locale : %s\n", l);(After having fried a few of my neurons getting over the fact that to get the locale, you have to call, ahem, setlocale.)Under linux I get the proper locale, under windows (after cross-compiling with mingw-cross-env, neat package, go check it out), it just prints "(null)". I guess sometimes it's *really* time to go to bed.

phtrivier 2010-05-02 20:50:03

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On Windows typically used function GetUserDefaultLCID which returns you integer value of locale identifier. To convert from LCID to string like 'fr_FR' you need to map it based on the info from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms776260

bialix 2010-05-02 19:52:49

Yes, I've seen the function mentionned in the multi-headed hydra that is "gl_locale_name" from the inners of gettext. The logic and the mapping has been done there also, I was secretely hoping I could just, you know, call a function and get the value since it has to be computed to translate any message. I guess my hopes are just too high. And it's time to go to bed.

phtrivier 2010-05-02 20:59:53

@phtrivier you also should be aware that LANGUAGE environment variable affects the gettext and overrides the windows settings.

bialix 2010-05-03 06:05:12

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Boost provides a good library for working with locales. It even gives a few suggestions when attempting to get the locale. Read the intro bit. It may not completely answer your questions but I'm hoping either it will help or provide you with a usable library that makes working with locales simpler.

wheaties 2010-05-02 19:57:31

Your link melted hopefully expandable parts of my brain, especially the parts where they tell me how I can generate a locale object in a few thousands neat ways, provided I know the locale beforehand. I will try again tomorow after a few hours of sleep, and maybe inhaling the blood of some member from the Heroes cast. They I'll see if I can get something from this page, and if the fact that the Boost.Locale library is not even part of Boost *yet* is too much of a problem. Did I mention it's time to go to bed instead of ranting ? Thanks anyway...

phtrivier 2010-05-02 20:55:45

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Turns out the "gl_locale_name" function was not part of gettext directly, but rather part of gnulib - http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib. I just discovered the package today.

So getting the infamous localename.h header in my project was a matter of

gnulib-tool --import localename

Then the gl_locale_name function works just fine when cross-compiling.

Thanks to everyone for the answers !

phtrivier 2010-05-03 21:47:42

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