Re: [E-devel] 3rd party Module Internationalization

[David Stevenson]

On 12/1/05, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:18:37 +0900 David Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
babbled:

> Gidday all,
>
> I have posted a couple of blog entries about 3rd party module
> internationalization over at edevelop.
>
> 3rd party Module Internationalization - Overview
> http://edevelop.org/node/1853
> 3rd party Module Internationalization - Proof of concept
> http://edevelop.org/node/1860
>
> My autotools knowledge is rudimentary, but hopefully this can be useful for
> other 3rd party module developers wanting to internationalize :-)
> If anyone has suggestions for improvement please let me know.

very nice write up man! ganbatte!

minna ganbaro-!

Actually I had an idea for an improvement to this
Using the d_ macro in e_intl.h involves writing
    d_("some string to translate", "")

which is obviously a pita to do for every string so instead I am thinking 3rd party modules, as they are built independently from e, could simply redefine the _ macro in their e_mod_main.h:

    #ifdef _
    #undef _
    #endif _
    #define _str dgettext(PACKAGE, str)

So then strings in 3rd party modules can be wrapped as usual with just
    _("some string to translate")

...which should be less of a hassle :)

David