Roger Leigh wrote: > I created a C.po file, and this installed as schroot.mo under > /usr/share/locale. This po file simply converts the UTF-8 chars to > the nearest ASCII equivalent e.g. © -> (C). However, when running > under the C or POSIX locales, bindtextdomain() never even checks for > the existence of a message catalogue (checked with strace). > > Is this correct? If so, is this a gettext or libc bug?
gettext() does no conversion at all when running in the C or POSIX locale. This is because the POSIX standard specifies the precise output of many commands in the C locale, and no localization is allowed in this case. You can get the desired behaviour by using an English locale (such as en_US.US-ASCII - note: you have to create this locale first, using 'localedef'). You build the message catalog for this locale using the 'msgen' command. It can contain UTF-8 in both the msgid and the msgstr; the gettext() library function will take care of converting many common UTF-8 characters to ASCII when the locale's encoding is ASCII. Bruno -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
