Re: gettext feature request

[Chet Ramey]

On 7/29/21 4:33 PM, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> On 7/24/21 2:48 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> > On 7/24/21 10:35 AM, Jean-Jacques Brucker wrote:
> > > Planning to use the /$"string/" feature in my bash code made me think
> > > too much : https://github.com/foopgp/bash-libs/tree/main/i18n
> > >
> > >
> > > ...what I really *love* to see in bash, is a /$'string'/ feature,
> > > which doesn't parse any «`» or «$» characters.
> >
> > So you want a translation feature without any further interpretation? Or
> > one just without command substitution?
> >
> > What about an option to enable this variant behavior? What do you think
> > would be a suitable name?
>
>
> In the thread Greg linked, he submitted a patch back in 2009 to
> implement `shopt -s safelocale`.

Yeah, I don't think that name's particularly descriptive, either.


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