Gevik Babakhani wrote: > My apologies on this late reply. > The way LC_MESSAGES is handled on windows is much less efficient and faulty. > While ago I started with a patch to fix some of the issues I encountered on > windows and LC_MESSAGES. But I stopped working on that patch because this > problem needed to be fixed on many other places. In Windows, handling > LC_MESSAGES will not work the same way as *nix systems, forcing us to make > ugly workarounds. (as I actually was doing with my patch) > > To my opinion, unless we think of a coherent solution for handling > LC_MESSAGES/locale for both *nix and win32 platforms, fixing lc_messages and > locale issues would break more than fixing it. > > BTW: The gettext library we are using on win32 is a very old one.
This is the most recent posting on the topic, I think. Status? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Regards, > Gevik. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Magnus Hagander [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 4:54 PM > > To: Bruce Momjian > > Cc: Tom Lane; Thomas H.; pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org; Gevik Babakhani > > Subject: Re: [BUGS] BUG #4186: set lc_messages does not work > > > > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > Tom Lane wrote: > > >> Magnus Hagander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>> Thomas H. wrote: > > >>>> so at least that explains the "changed" behaviour. nevertheless, > > >>>> LC_MESSAGES seems to be defunct - with the "locale" > > folder present, > > >>>> pg always picks the os' language and ignores the > > lc_message value. > > >>> This looks like I can reproduce though, at least on cvs head. Did > > >>> this work for you in previous versions? > > >> Maybe we were using a different build of gettext in the previous > > >> releases, one that didn't look at the same info as the > > current code? > > >> > > >> Anyway the patch mentioned at the start of the thread > > >> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-02/msg00038.php > > >> purports to fix this. It doesn't seem to have gotten reviewed > > >> though. > > > > > > Agreed. Magnus, someone, can we get feedback on the patch > > at this URL? > > > > > > > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-02/msg00038.php > > > > IIRC, there was further work to be done on the patch before > > it was to be applied, and we held off the review until then. > > > > Gevik - can you comment on this? Where are we, what needs ot > > be done still? > > > > //Magnus > > -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
