Re: [Fink-devel] Localization of fink

2003-01-20 Thread Max Horn
At 3:50 Uhr -0500 20.01.2003, Carsten Klapp wrote: Definitely stick with UTF-8. The question was more (as I understood it), does Perl provide facilites to deal with it, though. I refer to http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/perlunicode.html and http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/lib/utf8.html for

Re: [Fink-devel] Localization of fink

2003-01-20 Thread Carsten Klapp
Definitely stick with UTF-8. It supports all the languages of UTF-16 but it is newer and smarter about byte storage. When more than one byte is needed to store a character such as a Japanese word mixed with English it "expands" and "contracts" byte sizes dynamically. Carsten On Monday, January

Re: [Fink-devel] Localization of fink

2003-01-20 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, David wrote: > >On Montag, Jänner 20, 2003, at 05:08 Uhr, Carsten Klapp wrote: > >> I am looking for a good excuse to learn some perl, this might just be >> it. :) (Sometimes I see a bit of perl code which really impresses on >> me how powerful a language it is, but usually m

Re: [Fink-devel] Localization of fink

2003-01-19 Thread David
On Montag, Jänner 20, 2003, at 05:08 Uhr, Carsten Klapp wrote: I've done a lot of gettext work in PHP and C and often find I am frustrated by it's limitations, never-mind the extra time to educate English-speakers how to write _("translation-friendly") English strings in our project's code

Re: [Fink-devel] Localization of fink

2003-01-19 Thread Carsten Klapp
Hi, Very informative article, perl Maketext sure sounds powerful! I've done a lot of gettext work in PHP and C and often find I am frustrated by it's limitations, never-mind the extra time to educate English-speakers how to write _("translation-friendly") English strings in our project's c

Re: [Fink-devel] Localization of fink

2003-01-19 Thread David
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Montag, Jänner 20, 2003, at 12:27 Uhr, Max Horn wrote: Just found back that nice article about localizing perl programs on CPAN. http://search.cpan.org/author/SBURKE/Locale-Maketext-1.03/lib/Locale/ Maketext/TPJ13.pod It's an

[Fink-devel] Localization of fink

2003-01-19 Thread Max Horn
Just found back that nice article about localizing perl programs on CPAN. http://search.cpan.org/author/SBURKE/Locale-Maketext-1.03/lib/Locale/Maketext/TPJ13.pod It's an interesting read even if you don't plan to localize something right now :-) Cheers, Max -