[Printing-architecture] [Gimp-print-devel] Common Printing Dialog: PPD extension specs updated

[Till Kamppeter]

Roger Leigh wrote:
> 
> No.  Gutenprint is a special case, because the normal case is to
> translate into the user's language on the fly at run-time using gettext
> and the message catalogues.  Here, we are forcing build-time generation
> of the translations, which requires all of the needed locales to be
> present as a prerequisite.  This is not typical.
> 
> Does this also mean that global PPDs generated by CUPS are also
> dependent upon the presence of locales in order to be correctly
> translated?  If we could detect a locale is missing, it might be better
> to skip and/or warn about that.
>

CUPS DDK can create globalized PPDs from po/ directories somehow. Mike, 
is it able to do so without all locales installed?

> If you build-depend upon locales-all, this should fix things.
>

locales-all seems to be Debian-only. In Ubuntu it does not exist.

For me it seems that with all locale-related env variables undefined 
gettext creates only English text.

    Till