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Re: I18N fixes.


On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Philipp Thomas wrote:

> NLS support in 2.95.2 is disabled by default. Question is, if we should
> backport the i18n changes to allow a user to enable that support.
> 
> This would be changes to the configury (leaving the default to off), changes
> to libintl and Zacks patches for using safe-ctype.h along with my change to
> use either LC_MESSAGES *and* LC_CTYPE or LC_ALL.

This is outside the scope of 2.95.3, I think.

> If you decide to leave things as they are, which I could fully understand,
> I'd create a patch that 
> 
>   a) makes 'configure --help' say that NLS support is broken and thus
>      --enable-nls should not be used (alternatively just omit mentioning
>      --enable-nls).
>   b) changes ABOUT-GCC-NLS to describe in more detail why NLS support 
>      should not be enabled without further patches.

That sounds like a better plan.


Bernd


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