using xlocale to implement std::locale class

[François Dumont]

On 05/04/2011 02:18 PM, Paolo Carlini wrote:
> Hi,
>> Constructively, I would also encourage you to submit fixes, 
>> preferably of a sort not breaking the binary compatibility 
>> (otherwise, we can still look into the patches now, but would be 
>> targeted at the ABI breaking branch opened by Francois)
>>
>> Â… but Francois's more recent patch in that bug seems to work without 
>> changing the ABI. I must've missed the notification from Bugzilla.
> Indeed, I remember Francois made very good progress on those issues, 
> then something tricky surfaced (recently, on this mailing list). It 
> would be great if you two could collaborate...
>
> Paolo.
>
>
     If you want to help you are welcome Sam. I have problem with usage 
of message catalogs on my platform, I never understood why and I 
remember that I was quite disappointed that the dgettext do not give any 
diagnostic regarding issue in load of catalogs. It is designed this way 
of course but I would appreciate an other method to check for the 
existence of a catalog.

     So my final patch is attached to my post on the 13631 bug entry, 
can you have a try of it on your side ? There is a test case missing but 
at least running existing tests with the patch would be a first step.

     For info Paolo, I haven't created any branch yet. I still plan to 
do so but lack time for the moment.

Regards