URL:
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49560>
Summary: [PATCH] _nl_language_preferences_default needs
updating for macOS Sierra (10.12)
Project: GNU gettext
Submitted by: krietvel
Submitted on: Tue 08 Nov 2016 08:01:46 PM GMT
Category: None
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: None
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
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Details:
_nl_language_preferences_default() (in gettext-runtime/intl/langprefs.c) has a
special implementation for macOS. In this function all preferred languages as
configured in the Operating System are iterated. As soon as the English
language is detected, the iteration is stopped and no further languages are
considered. This is because many GNU programs don't ship an en.mo catalog.
The problem is that detection of the English language is no longer working
properly on macOS Sierra (10.12), causing preferred languages with a lower
priority than English to be considered. This problem has been reported
numerous times in the GIMP bug tracker (see
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770708).
The attached patch solves the problem. (Although the patch is not against the
most recent release of gettext, the code in git HEAD also shows this problem).
Before Sierra, preferred languages were listed as:
en
nl
de
es
Starting with Sierra, this has changed to:
en-CA
en-GB
gd-CA
hi-CA
which is way modification of the string comparison is required. This change is
elaborated in the following Apple TechNote:
https://developer.apple.com/library/content/technotes/tn2418/_index.html
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File Attachments:
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Date: Tue 08 Nov 2016 08:01:46 PM GMT Name:
gettext-fix-English-language-fallback-for-macOS-Sierra.patch Size: 1kB By:
krietvel
Proposed patch
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=38908>
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