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Note Submitter: poff@sixbit.org ---- I had MANY HOURS of problems with the: fr != fr_FR On a netbsd system, specifying any locale works fine, there's no need for a corresponding locale in /usr/share/locale However on 2 linux systems there needed either an alias or an entry in /usr/lib/locale What to do when you're using a language with no locale entry? Is this a shortcoming of the way gettext works on these linux systems? Ie. setlocale ( LC_ALL, "km", "km_KM" ); won't work on the linux systems are there are no entries for Khmer. I needed to copy the english locale to the khmer entry manually, or add an alias. How are you expected to do this on a shared server or where you don't have access to this sort of manipulation? As someone posted above or in the gettext() section, you just lost portability.