1 # locale-ar.m4 serial 9
2 dnl Copyright (C) 2003, 2005-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
4 dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
5 dnl with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.
7 dnl From Ben Pfaff, based on locale-fr.m4 by Bruno Haible.
9 dnl Determine the name of an Arabic locale with traditional encoding.
10 AC_DEFUN([gt_LOCALE_AR],
12 AC_REQUIRE([AC_CANONICAL_HOST])
13 AC_REQUIRE([AM_LANGINFO_CODESET])
14 AC_CACHE_CHECK([for a traditional Arabic locale], [gt_cv_locale_ar], [
15 AC_LANG_CONFTEST([AC_LANG_SOURCE([[
18 #if HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET
19 # include <langinfo.h>
26 /* On BeOS and Haiku, locales are not implemented in libc. Rather, libintl
27 imitates locale dependent behaviour by looking at the environment
28 variables, and all locales use the UTF-8 encoding. */
29 #if defined __BEOS__ || defined __HAIKU__
32 /* Check whether the given locale name is recognized by the system. */
33 # if defined _WIN32 && !defined __CYGWIN__
34 /* On native Windows, setlocale(category, "") looks at the system settings,
35 not at the environment variables. Also, when an encoding suffix such
36 as ".65001" or ".54936" is specified, it succeeds but sets the LC_CTYPE
37 category of the locale to "C". */
38 if (setlocale (LC_ALL, getenv ("LC_ALL")) == NULL
39 || strcmp (setlocale (LC_CTYPE, NULL), "C") == 0)
42 if (setlocale (LC_ALL, "") == NULL) return 1;
44 /* Check that nl_langinfo(CODESET) is nonempty and not "ASCII" or "646"
46 # if HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET
48 const char *cs = nl_langinfo (CODESET);
49 if (cs[0] == '\0' || strcmp (cs, "ASCII") == 0 || strcmp (cs, "646") == 0
50 || cs[strlen (cs) - 1] != '6')
55 /* On Cygwin, avoid locale names without encoding suffix, because the
56 locale_charset() function relies on the encoding suffix. Note that
57 LC_ALL is set on the command line. */
58 if (strchr (getenv ("LC_ALL"), '.') == NULL) return 1;
64 if AC_TRY_EVAL([ac_link]) && test -s conftest$ac_exeext; then
66 # Handle native Windows specially, because there setlocale() interprets
67 # "ar" as "Arabic" or "Arabic_Saudi Arabia.1256",
68 # "fr" or "fra" as "French" or "French_France.1252",
69 # "ge"(!) or "deu"(!) as "German" or "German_Germany.1252",
70 # "ja" as "Japanese" or "Japanese_Japan.932",
73 # Note that on native Windows, the Arabic locale is
74 # "Arabic_Saudi Arabia.1256", and CP1256 is very different from
75 # ISO-8859-6, so we cannot use it here.
79 # Setting LC_ALL is not enough. Need to set LC_TIME to empty, because
80 # otherwise on Mac OS X 10.3.5 the LC_TIME=C from the beginning of the
81 # configure script would override the LC_ALL setting. Likewise for
82 # LC_CTYPE, which is also set at the beginning of the configure script.
84 # - The usual locale name: ar_SA
85 # - The locale name with explicit encoding suffix: ar_SA.ISO-8859-6
86 # - The HP-UX locale name: ar_SA.iso88596
87 # - The Solaris 7 locale name: ar
88 # Also try ar_EG instead of ar_SA because Egypt is a large country too.
89 for gt_cv_locale_ar in ar_SA ar_SA.ISO-8859-6 ar_SA.iso88596 ar_EG ar_EG.ISO-8859-6 ar_EG.iso88596 ar none; do
90 if test $gt_cv_locale_ar = none; then
93 if (LC_ALL=$gt_cv_locale_ar LC_TIME= LC_CTYPE= ./conftest; exit) 2>/dev/null; then
102 LOCALE_AR=$gt_cv_locale_ar
103 AC_SUBST([LOCALE_AR])