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[Olivier Salaün - CRU <address@concealed>]

Hi Adam,

You're right, we've fixed this locale problems, by adopting the "pure 
perl" implementation of gettext. I think it fixes the FreeBSD problem. 
This fix concerns both 5.2.x and development branches.

You're welcome to add a related to the FAQ though : 
http://www.sympa.org/wiki/faq/internationalization_and_locales
I'd be worth mentionning which Sympa versions are concerned.

Thanks.

Adam Bernstein wrote:
> 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.