gettext makes supporting multiple languages translations in ki18n impossible

[Albert Astals Cid]

El diumenge, 29 de juliol de 2018, a les 22:26:56 CEST, Albert Astals Cid va escriure:
> El diumenge, 29 de juliol de 2018, a les 21:45:27 CEST, Karl Ove Hufthammer va escriure:
> > Albert Astals Cid skreiv 29. juli 2018 19:31:
> > > Ideally one would be able to query gettext about whether the translation exists or not (basically having an option to return nullptr in the above function or similar), but I have not been able to find any such functionality in glibc/libintl itself or in any other library out there.
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> > According to comment #7 at https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168134, 
> > this is possible:
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> > > […] how to know which language did the translation came from. Turned out that raw gettext calls will return the same const char* pointer given to them if there was no translation, as opposed to different pointer if the translation was there, but same string-wise. Since i18n() uses these raw calls under the hood, by this it can check the language.
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> Right, that makes sense, i'll investigate.

https://phabricator.kde.org/D14473

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> Cheers,
>   Albert
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