Re: Fallback language for internationalized string

[Eric Blake]

On 07/27/2011 09:05 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Anders Sundman<anders@4zm.org>  writes:
>
> > Is it possible to get bash to use a fallback language for showing
> > localized strings if no translation exists for the current language?
> > Instead of using the 'raw' msgid that is.
>
> The msgid is supossed to be the fallback.  That's how gettext works.

Not entirely.  See the glibc documentation for the LANGUAGE environment 
variable.

>    While for the `LC_xxx' variables the value should consist of exactly
> one specification of a locale the `LANGUAGE' variable's value can
> consist of a colon separated list of locale names.  The attentive
> reader will realize that this is the way we manage to implement one of
> our additional demands above: we want to be able to specify an ordered
> list of language.

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