Re: Some g_get_language_names issues

[Ben Maurer <bmaurer ximian com>]

On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 08:51 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 19:07 -0500, Ben Maurer wrote:
> > Hey guys,
> > 
> > I was noticing that the g_get_language_names which is in bonobo takes up
> > alot of memory mclasen directed me to the fact that this function is in
> > glib now. However, glib only supports LC_MESSAGES. libgnome and bonobo
> > need support for any of the env variables here (bonobo only wants LANG
> > and libgnome supports arbitrary input).
> 
> I think we considered the libgnome ability to pick the category and
> decided that it wasn't being used for any good purpose or reason.
> Is there any real reason Bonobo's behavior needs to be preserved?

I don't personally see any. I'll submit patches to people after the
release I guess...

I don't know much about the locale.alias stuff other than the amount of
memory it was sucking from everyone ;-). Am on en_US.UTF-8, so my
computer probably isn't the best test bed for i18n breakage.

-- Ben