On 22/05/13 07:27, Diggory wrote:
On Tuesday, 21 May 2013 at 18:59:08 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
I would expect that the system needs to be designed from the ground up
with support for something like internationalization. There are
probably other features were this is true as well.
Of course, although I think internationalization is actually not one of
them.
We could implement something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettext
I agree. I would very much like to see a D implementation of gettext()
as IMHO it is the best i18n mechanism around - simple and easy to use.
I also think that putting i18n hooks in your code is not just good
manners but good sense as it widens your potential customer base. I do
it with all of my PyGTK GUIs (as Python's standard has gettext()) but
don't do any l8n as I figure that's not my responsibility.
> in D which would be great because unlike Gettext we wouldn't have to
> have a separate compiler to generate the equivalent of the .pot file, we
> should be able to do that as part of the normal compilation process.
This would be great. I had been toying with the idea of making a tool
to do that but if the compiler could do it things would be greatly
simplified.
Peter
