Re: Bug#114461: gettext: there is no way to control where message catalogs are found at run time (fwd)

[Zack Weinberg]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 01:34:26PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Zack Weinberg wrote:
> > Okay, but then TEXTDOMAINDIR should be honored by all libgettext-using
> > programs, not just the gettext command.  Right now, there is *no way*
> > to override the compiled-in path in most libgettext-using programs.
> 
> This is not true. Assuming you as a user or translator have your private
> Italian translations in $HOME/my-translations/it, then you can cause
> gettext to use your translations in preferrence of / in addition to the
> preinstalled Italian ones by setting the environment variable
> 
>   $ export LANGUAGE=../../../../../../$HOME/my-translations/it:it

Is this documented anywhere?

And, speaking as a user, I find TEXTDOMAINDIR dramatically easier to
comprehend than this - this looks like an ugly hack, frankly.

zw