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Message-ID: <18c323aca2386be75d5df553add9ad3cb02259c0.camel@postmarketos.org>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:44:55 +0200
From: Pablo Correa Gomez <pabloyoyoista@...tmarketos.org>
To: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>, musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Updated dumplocale/source format [Re: Selecting locale
source format]
> > I think I'd like to use E0 and H0 and EAI_0 for the case where the
> > error code is 0, matching REG_OK that's already there, and add new
> > keys for unknown/unmatched for all of them. Whatever name we choose
> > should be selected not to clash with any future additions, so
> > something like EUNKNOWN would be a really bad choice. Off the top of
> > my head, I'd propose: E_, H_, EAI__, REG__, etc. So you'd have
> > something like:
> >
> > E_ "Unknown error"
> > E0 "No error information"
> > EACCES "Permission denied"
> >
> > REG__ "Unknown error"
> > REG_OK "No error"
> > REG_NOMATCH "No match"
> >
> > etc.
> >
> > And while this isn't a matter for the source format, I'd assign the
> > value -1 to these unknown keys, so that the key has a value that's
> > contiguous with the range of error codes but guaranteed not to match
> > one of them. (Note: EAI_* are negative to begin with, so we could
> > negate them all, or just accept the data table using negatives and put
> > EAI__ as +1. But this again is only a matter for the binary format not
> > source.)
>
> Here's an updated dumplocale.c and output. I'm also including an
> edited output with the unknown/zero cases disambiguated where
> applicable, since musl currently does not have separate strings for
> them. The edited form should probably serve as the basis for
> translations going forward.
>
I have used the provided dumplocale.c file to transform the current locales into
the new source format. It can all be found
in https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/musl-locales Generally the whole
thing was pretty straight-forward, and clearly it now allowed to fix the
infamous "May" bug:
https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/musl-locales/-/commit/374ea7d0164efcf1bc1f14701b1333a943837bd7
Of course, the "May" bug is still present in all translations (but Spanish, my
native language, that I have manually fixed), and things like the
differentiation between H_ and H0 are not there either, since they were not
there in the previous translations.
I will start poking translators about this, to see if we find any issue that we
didn't find earlier.
Best,
Pablo
> Rich
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