[PD-dev] locales and iemgui

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jan 23, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> On Jan 23, 2009, at 10:37 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
>>> So, do you really think that Tcl's GetText 'format' is being used  
>>> at all outside of Tcl? It's not like it's the same format as used  
>>> in GNU GetText.
>> Considering Tcl's msgcat is listed in the official GNU gettext  
>> manual as "fully portable", I think it is safe to say yes:
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/gettext/Tcl.html
>
> But Tcl's msgcat is using its own *.msg file format instead of *.po.
>
>> Here is one: http://www.gted.org/
>
> Does it support Tcl's *.msg files, or only *.po ? I only see a  
> mention of *.po.

http://wiki.tcl.tk/1488

"GNU gettext has support (since V 0.13 [1]) for Tcl msgcat and  
conversion tools from and to PO format. http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/"

.hc

>
>
>>> Do you need a well debugged and optimised library for accessing a  
>>> hashtable when the language already has commands for accessing  
>>> hashtables freely?
>> Do you really think that accessing a hashtable is all there is to  
>> localization?  How about parsing the names of the locales (en_US,  
>> en_US.UTF-8, en_GB, etc.)?  That is non-trivial and handled by  
>> msgcat, as are many other things we haven't thought of, but the  
>> people who have been working on gettext/msgcat since
>
> Yeah, this is what most of the msgcat library does. If you remove  
> the locale autodetection code from it, there's not much code left. I  
> don't really mind setting the language myself though. Yet it'd be  
> fine with me if the locale were autodetected.
>
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