doc/bugs/search_for_locale_data_in_the_installed_location.mdwn



It seems like gettext only searches for locale information in /usr/share/locale, by default. I installed ikiwiki into /usr/local, therefore the locale information wasn't found. This patch fixes the issue:
--- a/IkiWiki.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki.pm
@@ -1057,6 +1057,7 @@ sub gettext {
                                $gettext_obj=undef;
                                return shift;
                        }
+                       $gettext_obj->dir("$installdir/share/locale/");
                }
                return $gettext_obj->get(shift);
        }

[[!tag patch patch/core]]
-- [[ThomasBleher]]

According to my testing, this patch makes ikiwiki's localisation fail for
LANG=fr_FR when everything is installed to the default locations,
though LANG=es_ES works. I don't understand this behavior, especially
since strace shows it successfully opening the file
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/ikiwiki.mo.
(Also, it should check that $installdir is set before using it.)
--[[Joey]]