Programmer's Reference
The X/Open UNIX standard defines an environment variable called NLSPATH
that specifies the directories to be searched for localized files. The
Locale class provides similar facilities for IBM Smalltalk
applications through the NlsPath variable, which contains a
collection of directory paths to search for message catalogs.
The nlsPath and nlsPath: methods are provided
to query and set the value of the NlsPath variable. The
value of the NlsPath variable is not affected by reinitializing the
current locale.
- Note:
- All NlsMessageCatalog protocols that read from a specified path
first assume the path to be absolute. If the first attempt to open this
file fails, it is assumed to be a relative path name located in one of the
directories specified by Locale nlsPath. Therefore, once
NlsPath is set, you need only specify the name of the desired
message catalog when using the NlsMessageCatalog read operations
described in the following section.
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