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Re: PRI?64 vs Visual Studio (2022)

Bryan Green <dbryan.green@gmail.com> — 2025-12-15T23:23:48Z

On 12/15/2025 2:39 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
>> Experimenting here, it looks like 'C.UTF-8' might be accepted
>> everywhere.  I even got it to pass on Solaris's not-GNU gettext,
>> which I thought for sure would be the weak spot in the idea.
>> I'll press forward with that.
> 
> Hmmm ... the first batch of BF reports show that on some Linux
> machines, it works to set lc_messages to 'C.UTF-8', but nonetheless
> no translation happens.  Did you notice any other gating factors?
> 
> 			regards, tom lane
I should have asked you which version of libintl is being used.  I went
ahead and jumped to 0.26 and they now gate like this:

      /* If the current locale value is "C" or "C.<encoding>" or "POSIX",
	 we don't load a domain.  Return the MSGID.  */
      if ((single_locale[0] == 'C'
	   && (single_locale[1] == '\0' || single_locale[1] == '.'))
	  || strcmp (single_locale, "POSIX") == 0)
	break;


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