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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH][PR server/24377] Fix mixing English and system default languages in error messages on Windows
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> From: Владимир Мартьянов <vilgeforce@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 23:36:05 +0300
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
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> сб, 23 мар. 2019 г. в 16:11, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
> > Thanks, but isn't this a step backward?  Would it make sense to have
> > the hard-coded messages be translated instead?  Or is that impossible
> > for some reason?
> 
> There is _nl_locale_name function in intl/localename.c, it could be
> used to retrieve current locale name, which, in turn, could be used to
> translate messages in FormatMessage. But when I include gettextP.h in
> win32-low.c I got an error:
> In file included from win32-low.c:38:0:
> ../../intl/gettextP.h:71:8: error: inline variables are only available
> with -std=c++1z or -std=gnu++1z [-Werror]

Can you tell why you needed to retrieve the current locale's name?

If gdbserver supports NLS and gettext, all you need is to wrap the
untranslated messages in _().