Replace a call to BUG by an error return.
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1 /* localename.c - Determine the current selected locale.
2 Copyright (C) 1995-1999, 2000-2003, 2007,
3 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
6 modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License
7 as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1,
8 or (at your option) any later version.
10 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
13 Library General Public License for more details.
15 You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
16 License along with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
18 /* Written by Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gnu.org>, 1995. */
19 /* Win32 code written by Tor Lillqvist <tml@iki.fi>. */
20 /* Modified for GpgOL use by Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>, 2005. */
21 /* Modified for GnuPG use by Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>, 2007 */
23 #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
24 # include <config.h>
25 #endif
27 #include <stdlib.h>
28 #include <string.h>
29 #ifdef HAVE_LOCALE_H
30 #include <locale.h>
31 #endif
33 #include "../jnlib/w32help.h"
35 /* XPG3 defines the result of 'setlocale (category, NULL)' as:
36 "Directs 'setlocale()' to query 'category' and return the current
37 setting of 'local'."
38 However it does not specify the exact format. Neither do SUSV2 and
39 ISO C 99. So we can use this feature only on selected systems (e.g.
40 those using GNU C Library). */
41 #if defined _LIBC || (defined __GNU_LIBRARY__ && __GNU_LIBRARY__ >= 2)
42 # define HAVE_LOCALE_NULL
43 #endif
45 /* Use a dummy value for LC_MESSAGES in case it is not defined. This
46 works becuase we always test for HAVE_LC_MESSAGES and the core
47 fucntion takes the category as a string as well. */
48 #ifndef HAVE_LC_MESSAGES
49 #define LC_MESSAGES 0
50 #endif
53 /* Determine the current locale's name, and canonicalize it into XPG syntax
54 language[_territory[.codeset]][@modifier]
55 The codeset part in the result is not reliable; the locale_charset()
56 should be used for codeset information instead.
57 The result must not be freed; it is statically allocated. */
59 #ifndef HAVE_W32_SYSTEM
60 static const char *
61 do_nl_locale_name (int category, const char *categoryname)
63 const char *retval;
65 /* Use the POSIX methods of looking to 'LC_ALL', 'LC_xxx', and 'LANG'.
66 On some systems this can be done by the 'setlocale' function itself. */
67 # if defined HAVE_SETLOCALE && defined HAVE_LC_MESSAGES && defined HAVE_LOCALE_NULL
68 (void)categoryname;
69 retval = setlocale (category, NULL);
70 # else
71 /* Setting of LC_ALL overwrites all other. */
72 retval = getenv ("LC_ALL");
73 if (retval == NULL || retval[0] == '\0')
75 /* Next comes the name of the desired category. */
76 retval = getenv (categoryname);
77 if (retval == NULL || retval[0] == '\0')
79 /* Last possibility is the LANG environment variable. */
80 retval = getenv ("LANG");
81 if (retval == NULL || retval[0] == '\0')
82 /* We use C as the default domain. POSIX says this is
83 implementation defined. */
84 retval = "C";
87 # endif
89 return retval;
91 #endif /* HAVE_W32_SYSTEM */
95 /* Return the locale used for translatable messages. The standard C
96 and POSIX are locale names are mapped to an empty string. If a
97 locale can't be found an empty string will be returned. */
98 const char *
99 gnupg_messages_locale_name (void)
101 const char *s;
103 #ifdef HAVE_W32_SYSTEM
104 /* We use the localname function from ../jnlib/w32-gettext.c. */
105 s = gettext_localename ();
106 #else
107 s = do_nl_locale_name (LC_MESSAGES, "LC_MESSAGES");
108 #endif
109 if (!s)
110 s = "";
111 else if (!strcmp (s, "C") || !strcmp (s, "POSIX"))
112 s = "";
114 return s;