On 29 July 2010 02:24, Finnbarr Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I fully agree with Irek here.  Compiled shell scripts should be NLS-aware.
> Users expect
> no less than that.  At the very least, if this is truly the case,  text
> needs to be added to the
> shcomp man page to warn people about this serious restriction.

A agree with Finnbarr, Irek and other people here. This is a very
serious defect. IMO compiled shell script should be NLS-aware and
$"string" strings should work just like normal scripts.

This seriously affects us as we actively ship compiled shell scripts
as part of our product line (on Linux we use binfmt that the kernel
calls ksh93) and we *hoped* that the $"string" literals will ease the
complexity of localization once ksh93 u becomes more common in
installations (or is shipped as part of our product line). But as it
is implemented right now in ast-open.2010-07-01 it is *not* usable.

David, Glenn, please fix the $"string" literals to make them
NLS-aware, even if this means that the binary format of compiled shell
scripts must be changed.

Cedric
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Cedric Blancher <[email protected]>
Institute Pasteur
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