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Re: LC_MESSAGES implementation
On Feb 8 13:42, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb 8 11:30, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> >
> > I have finally found a method to implement the locale-specific
> > LC_MESSAGES info.
> >
> > Basically, I have two application which generate the yesexpr, noexpr,
> > yesstr and nostr strings from foreign local data. [...]
>
> I just re-examined the licensing of the GLIBC locale data and it turns
> out that not *all* locale files have a free enough license to be used
> by Cygwin. Some have no licenses at all, some are explicitely under GPL.
> Only 166 out of 266 locales are usable without licensing problems.
Eventually it occured to me that a bit of reverse engineering is the
key. I created a new tool which simply fetches the LC_MESSAGES locale
data available on a running Linux system. That way we should have no
licensing problems at all. The tool is here:
http://www.vinschen.de/localedata/
Corinna
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