Pseudo-locales for i18n testing by English speakers

[Sean Flanigan]

Asgeir Frimannsson wrote:
> ----- "Sean Flanigan" <sflaniga at redhat.com> wrote:
>> A gettext() hook could also be used to fetch translations from other
>> sources, such as a shared, up-to-date, translation database.  I think
>> that has the potential to be useful to a lot of people, not just
>> developers and testers.
>>
>> It doesn't really make sense to generate thousands of pseudo PO
>> files,
>> and compile them into static MOs, when all the required data (ie
>> English
>> text) is available at runtime.
>>
>> Let me change my question then.  How would people feel about having a
>> hook to override the behaviour of gettext() in a system-wide fashion?
> 
> I guess you could experiment with LD_PRELOAD for this. Tim Foster experimented with this a while a go. 
> http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/how_much_translation_do_you

Thank you, Asgeir, that's just the information I needed.  Looks like
LD_PRELOAD won't work on suid binaries, but it should be possible to
pseudo-localise 95% of packages without touching their build processes.

-- 
Sean Flanigan

Senior Software Engineer
Engineering - Internationalisation
Red Hat

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