[fpc-devel] GetText's GetLanguageIDs()

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

Hi

I'm working on localization for the fpGUI project.  My idea is for the
fpGUI toolkit to look for "fpgui.%s.po" files.  Where %s is the
language ID. e.g.:  'en' or 'af_ZA' or 'en_GB' etc.

Under Ubuntu Linux, if I call GetLanguageIDs() it returns the following two IDs.

SystemLanguageID1 = en_ZA.UTF-8
SystemLanguageID2 = en

The problem here is the '.UTF-8' part.  Normally the translation (.po)
files look like the following. 'fpgui.en.po' or 'fpgui.af_ZA.po' etc.
It never contains the '.UTF-8' part in the po files. So in the case of
the Afrikaans translation (af_ZA), the .po file is never found.  Am I
supposed to handle that, by maybe looking for the '.UTF-8' part and
stripping it, or can we extend GetLanguageIDs() to return 3 IDs
instead?

SystemLanguageID1 = en_ZA.UTF-8
SystemLanguageID2 = en_ZA         (stripping anything from the . onwards)
SystemLanguageID3 = en                (stripping anything from the _ onwards)


Regards,
  - Graeme -


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