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[Adam Bernstein <address@concealed>]

I was actually just looking to add this to the Sympa FAQ, but with the new 
site I'm not seeing where or how to add items.  We're installing Sympa on a 
new system and ran into this problem again, and I didn't immediately 
remember how to solve it, so I wanted to document it for myself and others:

With Sympa through at least 5.1.2, on FreeBSD through 6.2 with Perl through 
5.8.8, the language selector will show blank entries until you remove the 
gettext_xs.pm Perl module.  For us this meant moving out 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Locale.

I actually suspect this problem may be fixed by the Solaris-related patch I 
see in the release notes for 5.3a8:

"src/Language.pm: [reported by P.Maes, Univ. Louvain] localization failed 
on Solaris.  The native Solaris gettext libraries failed to use the 
appropriate .mo file.  We're now using the "Pure Perl" implementation of 
gettext"

because I think "pure perl" is the alternative to the XS version... 
whatever that is.  So maybe this whole problem is going away soon, but I 
don't have the luxury of testing a later Sympa version right now.

     ab