localization support under ubuntu

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 07:51:21PM +0200, Mathias Broxvall wrote:
> The thing which is confusing here, is that before the custom command  
> to set the bindtextdomain call, the custom sv_SE directories are  
> searched but with the wrong package. However, after setting the  
> bindtextdomain call, then en_US is used as the locale...
> 
> I have a vague memory about reading about a patch to the  
> bindtextdomain function in glibc in ubuntu, as a way to hard-code  
> applications to use .mo files under /usr/share/locale-langpack -  
> probably in the intent of simplifying the creation of "packages" of  
> language support files. Could anyone confirm that this is the case?  

I don't recall the details of which API calls were changed, but yes, glibc
in Ubuntu is modified to enable our language pack mechanism by searching
/usr/share/locale-langpack.  Martin Pitt (CCed) made the modifications.

> And if so, is there any way to access the "normal" bindtextdomain  
> function?

I don't think so.  The behavior you describe sounds like a bug which should
be fixed; there should be no need to have two separate APIs.

-- 
 - mdz