Your gettext problem

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

Hi Carlos,

I looked at your test program and found a bug in it - after fixing the bug,
everything works fine.

- in Makefile.am, you need to set TEST_LOCALEDIR to the directory where it
  actually installes your *.mo files - normally $(datadir)/locale

- in the main() function of your program, you must call

        setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
        bindtextdomain (PACKAGE, TEST_LOCALEDIR);

- you need to define `_' to use dgettext for your own strings, not gettext -
  like this: #define _(String) dgettext(PACKAGE, string).

  [FIXME: not 100% sure about this, but this made it work for me].

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Martin Baulig
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