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Bug 766506 - Tools can display gibberish messages from translations
Tools can display gibberish messages from translations
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: glib
Classification: Platform
Component: general
unspecified
Other Windows
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gtkdev
gtkdev
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-05-16 09:00 UTC by Fan, Chun-wei
Modified: 2018-05-24 18:54 UTC
See Also:
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Description Fan, Chun-wei 2016-05-16 09:00:41 UTC 
Hi,

The command-line tools included with GLib built with later versions of Visual Studio (>=2012) displays gibberish when displaying messages that are acquired from the translations.  Upon some investigation, it seems that the CRT implementation of setlocale (LC_ALL, "") returns different values:

msvcrt90.DLL: Chinese (Simplified)_Taiwan.950
vcruntime140.DLL: Chinese_Taiwan.936
(vcruntime140.dll is the CRT for Visual Studio 2015--Likewise for msvcr110.dll and msvcr120.dll)

(My system runs on a zh_TW (Chinese (Traditional) locale, code page 950; codepage 936 refers to the codepage used in Mainland China, i.e. zh_CN, Simplified Chinese).

This is obviously a CRT issue on Microsoft's side, but would affect users using translations in command-line tool programs (but interestingly, GUI programs are not affected by this issue).

To fix the issues, we need to call setlocale (LC_ALL, ".ACP") in these tools to make use of the current code page correctly, in which setlocale (LC_ALL, "") was intended to do initially, according to the MSDN docs for setlocale().

I will attach patches later for this.

With blessings, thank you!
Comment 1 Fan, Chun-wei 2016-05-16 09:02:43 UTC 
Hi,

We might need to update the docs in ggettext.c regarding the use of gettext() in applications, BTW, for this issue.

With blessings, thank you!
Comment 2 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-24 18:54:46 UTC 
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