Re: NLS on MSVC strikes back!

> What this really means is that locale support is completely
> broken in the MSVC build, i.e. you cannot get localized
> strings at all (not just to_char()). Is this correct? If
> so, this is a serious problem.
>

The way one could confirm this is by:

1. rename share/locale/de to share/locale/German_Germany
2. start a dosbox
3. before starting PG, set an env variable SET LANGUAGE=German_Germany in
that dosbox, which will force all child threads to have that locale.
3. start PG form that dosbox and SET LC_MESSAGES to "es_ES" or
"Spanish_Spain" or "es_ES.utf8" or anything else...; select
to_char(now(),'TMDay TMMonth YYYY');
4. The result will be in German and not Spanish as one expects.

If handling locale in to_char will remain using gettext then I can start
working on a patch to fix this.

Regards,
Gevik Babakhani
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