Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> writes: > On 07/27/2011 09:05 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote: >> Anders Sundman<and...@4zm.org> writes: >> >>> Is it possible to get bash to use a fallback language for showing >>> localized strings if no translation exists for the current language? >>> Instead of using the 'raw' msgid that is. >> >> The msgid is supossed to be the fallback. That's how gettext works. > > Not entirely. See the glibc documentation for the LANGUAGE environment > variable.
That's about user control, not program control. The message ids are supposed to be ordinary strings that you would use if you hadn't i18n'd your program. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
