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-rw-r--r--common/i18n.c108
1 files changed, 104 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/common/i18n.c b/common/i18n.c
index e6d3f5e47..d1f157c20 100644
--- a/common/i18n.c
+++ b/common/i18n.c
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
/* i18n.c - gettext initialization
- * Copyright (C) 2007, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ * Copyright (C) 2007, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ * Copyright (C) 2015 g10 Code GmbH
*
* This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of either
@@ -37,6 +38,37 @@
#include "i18n.h"
+/* An object to store pointers to static strings and there static
+ translation. A linked list is not optimal but given that we only
+ have a few dozen messages it should be acceptable. */
+struct msg_cache_s
+{
+ struct msg_cache_s *next;
+ const char *key;
+ const char *value;
+};
+
+/* A object to store an lc_messages string and a link to the cache
+ object. */
+struct msg_cache_heads_s
+{
+ struct msg_cache_heads_s *next;
+ struct msg_cache_s *cache;
+ char lc_messages[1];
+};
+
+/* Out static cache of translated messages. We need this because
+ there is no gettext API to return a translation depending on the
+ locale. Switching the locale for each access to a translatable
+ string seems to be too expensive. Note that this is used only for
+ strings in gpg-agent which are passed to Pinentry. All other
+ strings are using the regular gettext interface. Note that we can
+ never release this memory because consumers take the result as
+ static strings. */
+static struct msg_cache_heads_s *msgcache;
+
+
+
void
i18n_init (void)
{
@@ -117,11 +149,79 @@ i18n_utf8 (const char *string)
/* A variant of gettext which allows to specify the local to use for
translating the message. The function assumes that utf-8 is used
- for the encoding. FIXME: The locale back and forth switching is
- likely very expensive, thus we should consider to implement our own
- cache here. */
+ for the encoding. */
const char *
i18n_localegettext (const char *lc_messages, const char *string)
{
+#if defined(HAVE_SETLOCALE) && defined(LC_MESSAGES) \
+ && !defined(USE_SIMPLE_GETTEXT) && defined(ENABLE_NLS)
+ const char *result = NULL;
+ char *saved = NULL;
+ struct msg_cache_heads_s *mh;
+ struct msg_cache_s *mc;
+
+ if (!lc_messages)
+ goto leave;
+
+ /* Lookup in the cache. */
+ for (mh = msgcache; mh; mh = mh->next)
+ if (!strcmp (mh->lc_messages, lc_messages))
+ break;
+ if (mh)
+ {
+ /* A cache entry for this local exists - find the string.
+ Because the system is designed for static strings it is
+ sufficient to compare the pointers. */
+ for (mc = mh->cache; mc; mc = mc->next)
+ if (mc->key == string)
+ {
+ /* Cache hit. */
+ result = mc->value;
+ goto leave;
+ }
+ }
+
+ /* Cached miss. Change the locale, translate, reset locale. */
+ saved = setlocale (LC_MESSAGES, NULL);
+ if (!saved)
+ goto leave;
+ saved = xtrystrdup (saved);
+ if (!saved)
+ goto leave;
+ if (!setlocale (LC_MESSAGES, lc_messages))
+ goto leave;
+
+ bindtextdomain (PACKAGE_GT, LOCALEDIR);
+ result = gettext (string);
+ setlocale (LC_MESSAGES, saved);
+ bindtextdomain (PACKAGE_GT, LOCALEDIR);
+
+ /* Cache the result. */
+ if (!mh)
+ {
+ /* First use of this locale - create an entry. */
+ mh = xtrymalloc (sizeof *mh + strlen (lc_messages));
+ if (!mh)
+ goto leave;
+ strcpy (mh->lc_messages, lc_messages);
+ mh->cache = NULL;
+ mh->next = msgcache;
+ msgcache = mh;
+ }
+ mc = xtrymalloc (sizeof *mc);
+ if (!mc)
+ goto leave;
+ mc->key = string;
+ mc->value = result;
+ mc->next = mh->cache;
+ mh->cache = mc;
+
+ leave:
+ xfree (saved);
+ return result? result : _(string);
+
+#else /*!(HAVE_SETLOCALE && LC_MESSAGES ...)*/
+ (void)lc_messages;
return _(string);
+#endif /*!(HAVE_SETLOCALE && LC_MESSAGES ...)*/
}