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ENABLE_NLS not defined Localization not working #429
Description
Localization is not compiled in because ENABLE_NLS is not defined in src/main.c
#ifdef ENABLE_NLS
bindtextdomain(PACKAGE, PACKAGE_LOCALE_DIR);
bind_textdomain_codeset(PACKAGE, "UTF-8");
textdomain(PACKAGE);
#endif
The issue was verified on stock Ubuntu 26 LTS version 2.4-2 deb package, probably in many other distributions as well
and on the latest 2.6.10-da72 build see attached screenshots.
In the about window the localization is in fact working on gnome system dialogs.
May i open a different PR from the existing #421 with minimal changes and without additional packages?
There is just a little error in configure.ac to be fixed for this issue.
Sorry for the screenshot sizes, i just found out that they are 4k.
It seems GTK3 scaling works well within Gpredict.
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fix localization, define ENABLE_NLS 1 if $USE_NLS = yes
csete commentedon Oct 10, 2026
Thanks for the info and the proposed fix in the referenced commit above. I made that change and it seems to be working as it used to, i.e. NLS is enabled by default and can be disabled using the --disable-nls configure option.
Not sure when and how this broke. Hopefully it's okay now.
Ensure NLS is enabled
fillods commentedon Oct 12, 2026
To me, commit 1423360 is a quick and wrong way of fixing the issue. The define
ENABLE_NLSshould be handled by m4 macros (RTFM), like in #421 . Besides, theseGETTEXTmacros inconfigure.acmake sure the appropriate version of gettext is selected.If you don't like the
autopointdependency,autogen.shcould be rewritten to useautoreconfaltogether.