Re: RFC 313 (v1) Perl 6 should support I18N and L10N

2000-09-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The issues I was thinking of have come up mainly from the Freeciv lists, > and concern ordering of substituted output and suchlike things. Does it > handle the case where in english you see: >error %s in file %s > but in some other language the two

Re: RFC 313 (v1) Perl 6 should support I18N and L10N

2000-09-26 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Dan Sugalski wrote: > The issues I was thinking of have come up mainly from the Freeciv lists, > and concern ordering of substituted output and suchlike things. Does it > handle the case where in english you see: > >error %s in file %s > > but in some other language th

Re: RFC 313 (v1) Perl 6 should support I18N and L10N

2000-09-26 Thread Bennett Todd
2000-09-26-08:10:54 Webmaster: > Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrote: > >Perl 6 needs some kind of internationalisation and therefore message > >catalogue support. Really needs, with great urgency. > > Doesn't RFC 85 address this to some extent? By offering up 'error codes' > can't the programme

Re: RFC 313 (v1) Perl 6 should support I18N and L10N

2000-09-26 Thread John van V
> VMS must die! Hahahahaha !!!

Re: RFC 313 (v1) Perl 6 should support I18N and L10N

2000-09-26 Thread Simon Cozens
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 08:10:54AM -0400, Webmaster wrote: > Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrote: > >Perl 6 needs some kind of internationalisation and therefore message > >catalogue support. Really needs, with great urgency. > > Doesn't RFC 85 address this to some extent? Not really. Well, it

Re: RFC 313 (v1) Perl 6 should support I18N and L10N

2000-09-26 Thread Webmaster
Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrote: >Perl 6 needs some kind of internationalisation and therefore message >catalogue support. Really needs, with great urgency. Doesn't RFC 85 address this to some extent? By offering up 'error codes' can't the programmer just "insert-test-here"? Then again, if 8

Re: RFC 313 (v1) Perl 6 should support I18N and L10N

2000-09-25 Thread Simon Cozens
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 01:19:16AM +0200, Bart Lateur wrote: > Eh? Are you saying that Perl's error message should be adapted to the > language of the computer user? I don't like that. That's precisely what I am saying, yes, but I'm not wedded to the idea as a religious principle. I think it woul

Re: RFC 313 (v1) Perl 6 should support I18N and L10N

2000-09-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Bart Lateur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eh? Are you saying that Perl's error message should be adapted to the > language of the computer user? Yes. Most major free software packages already do this. > I don't like that. You can always not set the environment variables. > How would Perl dec

Re: RFC 313 (v1) Perl 6 should support I18N and L10N

2000-09-25 Thread Bart Lateur
On 25 Sep 2000 20:15:19 -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote: >Erreur de syntaxe. Syntaxfehler. Errore di sintassi. suntaktik'o sphalm'a. > >Perl 6 needs some kind of internationalisation and therefore message >catalogue support. Really needs, with great urgency. Eh? Are you saying that Perl's error

RFC 313 (v1) Perl 6 should support I18N and L10N

2000-09-25 Thread Perl6 RFC Librarian
This and other RFCs are available on the web at http://dev.perl.org/rfc/ =head1 TITLE Perl 6 should support I18N and L10N =head1 VERSION Maintainer: Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 25 Sep 2000 Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Number: 313 Version: 1 Status: Developing =head