I have been using gettext() in PHP and it works great. Tried to do so in C++ and... there are numerous problems. Tried to google it but could not find any solution only a list of similar problems other people had (primarily ).

Have you used gettext() in your C/C++ project? Had you make it work?

I'm using Windows+MINGW+Code::Blocks.

At this point I'm considering writing my own .mo file parser, maybe that would be simplier

4 hours ago, vstrakh said:

Worked with it long ago with no problems, used in a portable win32/linux app.

See quick tutorial here: http://www.labri.fr/perso/fleury/posts/programming/a-quick-gettext-tutorial.html

The main "problem" you can hit with gettext - is when you want to change language explicitly. It's important to call setlocale(LC_ALL, "") and have LANGUAGE environment variable set to desired language. Normally gettext returns translations depending on system's settings, so if you want to change language from within the app - just putenv() LANGUAGE var explicitly.

Exactly The most annoying part is you can't override the system settings (and tell gettext to use a desired language) and you are on the mercy of system settings.

And there is another problem, for some reason there is no putenv() function available "error: 'setenv' was not declared in this scope" (MinGW, Windows)... Which is quite weird... And, as I have heard, you can't make gettext work without setenv()...

12 minutes ago, vstrakh said:

There's _putenv() on windows

Which is not available as well Same for _putenv_s() of course

There is SetEnvironmentVariable() but... it does not seem to have any effect.

It's as if everything related to setting system variables was not available or not working on my computer.