Thank you for the reply.
Geoff Clare wrote:
> > https://posix.rhansen.org/p/gettext_draft
> > Line 357
> > ...
> > If temporarily switching a thread's locale through uselocale()
> > invalidates the gettext functions' results (even if only those from
> > the same thread), it effectively disallows
Thank you for the reply.
Geoff Clare wrote:
> > https://posix.rhansen.org/p/gettext_draft
> > Line 350
>
> In today's call we made changes along the lines you suggest. Please
> check the updated etherpad to see if they achieve what you wanted.
The new text achieves what I wanted; thank you.
Thank you for the reply.
Geoff Clare wrote:
> > https://posix.rhansen.org/p/gettext_draft
> > Line 573
>
> In today's call we made changes along the lines you suggest. Please
> check the updated etherpad to see if they achieve what you wanted.
The change is good, from my POV. Thank you.
Bruno
Thanks for the reply.
Geoff Clare wrote:
> > This is NOT entirely how the gettext program from GNU gettext behaves.
> > Namely,
> > it also looks whether some of the strings contain a '\c' sequence, in order
> > to
> > emulate what BSD 'echo' does:
> >
> > $ gettext -s -e 'ab\c' | od -t c
> >
Thank you for the reply.
https://posix.rhansen.org/p/gettext_draft
Line 357
Geoff Clare wrote:
> However, we have rearranged the wording in a way that
> we hope makes it clearer it is a requirement on implementations.
Thank you; it is clearer now. It would be even clearer if there was a
Geoff Clare wrote in
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|Bruno Haible wrote, on 12 May 2022:
|>
|> https://posix.rhansen.org/p/gettext_draft
|> Line 573
|>
|> "The application shall ensure that the codeset argument, if non-empty, \
|> is a
|> valid codeset name that can be used as the
Bruno Haible wrote, on 12 May 2022:
>
> https://posix.rhansen.org/p/gettext_draft
> Lines 163..230, 538..543
>
> The 'restrict' keywords in these declarations are useless and - worse -
> forbid some valid, useful calls. For example, there is nothing wrong
> with
>dgettext("hello", "hello")
>
Bruno Haible wrote, on 12 May 2022:
>
> https://posix.rhansen.org/p/gettext_draft
> Line 50
> "often named after the application that provides the collection"
>
> Issue: On my system, in /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/ there are
> 55 .mo files for libraries.
>
> Suggestion: Change
> "after the
Bruno Haible wrote, on 12 May 2022:
>
> https://posix.rhansen.org/p/gettext_draft
> Line 350
>
> "If a significant proportion of the converted message string would consist
> of characters resulting from non-identical conversions ..."
>
> The term "significant proportion" is undefined.
>
>
Bruno Haible wrote, on 12 May 2022:
>
> https://posix.rhansen.org/p/gettext_draft
> Line 573
>
> "The application shall ensure that the codeset argument, if non-empty, is a
> valid codeset name that can be used as the tocode argument of the
> iconv_open()
> function."
>
> This is not the only
Bruno Haible wrote, on 12 May 2022:
>
> https://posix.rhansen.org/p/gettext_draft
> Lines 699, 721
>
> "if the -n option is not specified, a shall be written after the
> last message string"
> "(if -n is not also specified) append a to the output."
>
> This is NOT entirely how the gettext
Bruno Haible wrote, on 12 May 2022:
>
> https://posix.rhansen.org/p/gettext_draft
> Line 357
>
> "The returned string shall not be ... invalidated by a subsequent call
> to a gettext family function."
This was discussed in yesterday's call.
> It is not clear whether this sentence is an
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