On 1 April 2012 11:31, Mukund Sivaraman wrote:
Hi Alexandre
On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 12:56:54PM +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
Hi,
I've been wondering for a while why the plug-in for fetching an image
from network location always shows its messages in English, so I ended
up looking into the code...
plug-ins/file-uri/uri-backend-wget.c has this:
g_setenv ("LANGUAGE", "C", TRUE);
g_setenv ("LC_ALL", "C", TRUE);
g_setenv ("LANG", "C", TRUE);
And then translatable messages follow.
So the plug-in doesn't even give those messages a chance to show up as
translated, while providing false hope :)
Is there a reason for such a cruelty? :)
The plug-in parses the output of wget to gather the status of what
happened. So it needs the output of wget in the C locale, so it has
just 1 variant to compare.
It does the setenv after forking, so it shouldn't affect messages
getting translated in the parent process:
else if (pid == 0)
{
gchar timeout_str[16];
close (p[0]);
close (2);
dup (p[1]);
close (p[1]);
/* produce deterministic output */
g_setenv ("LANGUAGE", "C", TRUE);
g_setenv ("LC_ALL", "C", TRUE);
g_setenv ("LANG", "C", TRUE);
g_snprintf (timeout_str, sizeof (timeout_str), "%d", TIMEOUT);
execlp ("wget",
"wget", "-v", "-e", "server-response=off",
"--progress=dot", "-T", timeout_str,
uri, "-O", tmpname, NULL);
_exit (127);
}
