second locale language ?

[havner]

On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 03:36:42AM +0200, havner wrote:
>    When developing the message translation functions it was felt that
> the functionality provided by the variables above is not sufficient.
> For example, it should be possible to specify more than one locale name.
> Take a Swedish user who better speaks German than English, and a program
> whose messages are output in English by default.  It should be possible
> to specify that the first choice of language is Swedish, the second
> German, and if this also fails to use English.  This is possible with
> the variable `LANGUAGE'.  For further description of this GNU extension
> see *Note Using gettextized software::.
>      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Everything is described there although after short try i couldn't make
> it work.
> 
> f.e. mc has both, es and ca
> aumix has only es
> 
> $ LANGUAGE=ca_ES LC_ALL=es_ES mc
> and i get ca, that's ok
> 
> $ LANGUAGE=ca_ES LC_ALL=es_ES aumix
> i get english
> 
> Probably I make some mistake, but as you can see (according to this
> description) it should be possible.

Got it:

LANG=ca_ES LANGUAGE="ca:es" mc
I get ca

LANG=ca_ES LANGUAGE="ca:es" aumix
I get es

   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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