Re: desktop files and locale aliases

[Robert Bihlmeyer <robbe orcus priv at>]

Hi,

>>>>> On Mon, 22 Feb 1999 22:38:45 -0600
>>>>> Miguel de Icaza <miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx> said:

 Miguel> The problem we face is: does gettext provide a way to go from
 Miguel> the LANG environment variable to the actual locale name?

Probably not in an official/portable form. But GNU libc provides
_nl_expand_alias() which should do this. This function is also in GNU
gettext's intl/localealias.c.

	Robbe

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