Gevik Babakhani wrote: > 4. Locale names are different in MS Windows. I created a C app to test > gettext on Windows. > setting LC_MESSAGES to Spanisg_Spain and German_Germany works but es_ES and > de_DE do not :( > > SET LC_MESSAGES to '....' has no effect because: > > A. gettext compiled/linked in MSVC looks for the locale of the current > thread and NOT the LC_MESSAGES,LANGIAGE,LANG... environment variables. See > gettext's sources.... > > B. Given current thread's locale Spanish_Spain, gettext fails to find a > directory called "Spanish_Spain" in share/locale. As result English names > are returned.
What this really means is that locale support is completely broken in the MSVC build, i.e. you cannot get localized strings at all (not just to_char()). Is this correct? If so, this is a serious problem. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
