[gettext-u-en] Switching locale in command-line app?

[Masao Mutoh]

Hi,

How about to use Locale::CTYPE instead of Locale::MESSAGES ?

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:44:45 +0000
David Holroyd <dave at badgers-in-foil.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm using libgettext-ruby 0.8.0-1 (from Debian).
> 
> I wrote the following codes to swap locales while my application is
> generating some output in a language selected by the user,
> 
>   def with_message_locale(locale)
>     if locale
>       old_locale = Locale.get
>       Locale.set(Locale::MESSAGES, locale)
>       begin
> 	yield
>       ensure
> 	Locale.set(Locale::MESSAGES, old_locale)
>       end
>     else
>       yield
>     end
>   end
> 
> I then do something like,
> 
>   with_message_locale("i_piglatin") do
>     ... some uses of _("blah") ...
>   end
> 
> It doesn't appear to make any difference.  Is Locale.set() the correct
> API for this purpose?
> 
> (Switching locale for the whole app using LC_MESSAGES=i_piglatin works
> fine, BTW.)
> 
> 
> thanks!
> dave
> 
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