View Issue Details
| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0001952 | 1003.1(2024)/Issue8 | Shell and Utilities | public | 2025-10-27 15:02 | 2025-11-13 17:02 |
| Reporter | Love4Boobies | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | Objection | Type | Omission |
| Status | Resolved | Resolution | Accepted As Marked | ||
| Name | Bogdan Barbu | ||||
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| User Reference | |||||
| Section | gettext, ngettext | ||||
| Page Number | https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/gettext.html | ||||
| Line Number | N/A | ||||
| Interp Status | --- | ||||
| Final Accepted Text | see 0001952:0007323 | ||||
| Summary | 0001952: (n)gettext and NLSPATH | ||||
| Description | On XSI systems, gettext and ngettext require NLSPATH to take precedence over TEXTDOMAINDIR. This is undesirable because it means every one-off script using translations has to install its translation files in the system's global locale directory. Should such scripts instead choose to change NLSPATH to, say, a local subdirectory then all other utilities used by the script (including gettext/ngettext) would lose access to their own translations. Imagine a situation where in order to use an install script you have to first install its messages/catalogs. | ||||
| Desired Action | NLSPATH should control gettext/ngettext's own translations (e.g., diagnostics messages). TEXTDOMAINDIR should control the translations requested of gettext/ngettext. If it's not set, maybe then fall back to NLSPATH. | ||||
| Tags | tc1-2024 | ||||
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As described on page 1193, lines 40723-40732, NLSPATH is used first, but (if set) is not the only means to locate a messages object. Additionally, NLSPATH is a path like string ... with multiple directories separated by ':'. Thus an application can extend NLSPATH if it wants to add a temporary messages object, such as might be used by an installer. On p173 line 6080 change NLSPATH has precedence over TEXTDOMAINDIR to If a messages object can be found via both NLSPATH and TEXTDOMAINDIR, NLSPATH has precedence over TEXTDOMAINDIR (XSI shaded) |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2025-10-27 15:02 | Love4Boobies | New Issue | |
| 2025-11-13 17:00 | nick | Note Added: 0007323 | |
| 2025-11-13 17:01 | nick | Status | New => Resolution Proposed |
| 2025-11-13 17:01 | nick | Resolution | Open => Accepted As Marked |
| 2025-11-13 17:01 | nick | Interp Status | => --- |
| 2025-11-13 17:01 | nick | Final Accepted Text | => see 0001952:0007323 |
| 2025-11-13 17:02 | nick | Tag Attached: tc1-2024 | |
| 2025-11-13 17:02 | nick | Status | Resolution Proposed => Resolved |
