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Re: [PATCH] Fix severe performance regression with gettext 0.20+ on Windows

Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> — 2025-12-15T18:23:41Z

On Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM Bryan Green <dbryan.green@gmail.com> wrote:
> 1. Locale format mismatch
>    gettext 0.20.1+ introduced a get_lcid() function that expects Windows
> locale format ("English_United States.1252") rather than POSIX format
> ("en_US"). This function enumerates all Windows locales (~259) until a
> match is found, then uses the resulting LCID to determine the catalog path.

I'm surprised there isn't a fast path that skips all that deprecated
(?) stuff when you use BCP 47 language codes...