Cygwin suggestion

Chris Faylor cgf@cygnus.com
Sat May 20 14:29:00 GMT 2000


I've received the following personal email.

I know zero about LC_* stuff.  Does anyone know if this suggestion makes
sense?

cgf

On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 12:29:24PM +0200, RebuM wrote:
>Hi.
>
>I would like to give you a suggestion regarding the NLS support in cygwin:
>I tried adding LC_MESSAGES to the LC_* definitions in locale.h
>
>#define LC_ALL      0
>#define LC_COLLATE  1
>#define LC_CTYPE    2
>#define LC_MONETARY 3
>#define LC_NUMERIC  4
>#define LC_TIME     5
>#define LC_MESSAGES 6
>
>With this definition, gettext works and all programs that use it
>compile with NLS support, accept the export LANG="language" setting and
>reply in the selected language, if language files existing.
>
>Thank you very much
>
>Martin Matuska aka RebuM



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