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Parrot presently has about 200 strings that are targets.
Here's what I propose:
A standard library that allows loading of a strings db at run-time based
upon a defined order of variable testing. This might mean that the library
would getenv a variable, then check for a command-line option, then check
Hi Grant,
Just as a suggestion, i would use the PO format (already used by other tools
than gettext, like KDE) so we get for free all the catalog manager tools
(like Kbabel, which is very nice, by the way).
And maybe error codes output could be just another target language. So:
fprintf(stderr,
Damien Neil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
This is a far more error-prone interface in a number of ways
(...)
I don't believe that with the proper tools and rules that this system will
be any more difficult to manage. All of the things that you stated as
disadvantages could be countered
I've been looking over the gettext implementation, and I'm not sure that I
entirely like it, but let me know if this sounds like I've been programming
to long. (Maybe I'm misreading the document)
The gettext API uses strings as msgid. What this means is that in order to
get a translated string,
and a call to the API would be:
char *label = gettext( This feels strange\n );
Does you idea allow for:
int msgid = txtToMsgid( This feels strange\n );
char *label = msgidToRes( msgid );
In addition to the above, since this affords compile-time optimizations?
I'm not following this thread
Michael Maraist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
Does you idea allow for:
int msgid = txtToMsgid( This feels strange\n );
char *label = msgidToRes( msgid );
I'm not sure that I understand your question. This is not my idea, but GNU's
gettext tools. I, myself, am not thrilled with this
Michael Maraist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
... but I'm assuming it involves (among other things) displaying
locale-based error messages.
I'm not sure how the catalog would be determined, but I would suggest
another mechanism other than locale. Rather, I'd suggest a user-specific
Wizard wrote:
Michael Maraist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
Does you idea allow for:
int msgid = txtToMsgid( This feels strange\n );
char *label = msgidToRes( msgid );
I'm not sure that I understand your question. This is not my idea, but GNU's
gettext tools. I, myself, am not
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
You quoted something similar to my text above and said you didn't
like it. I
believe mostly because it involved reading external files, but
also because of
the concept of the message-id.
Actually, the thing that I didn't like was using an
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 07:29:01PM -0700, Wizard wrote:
Actually, the thing that I didn't like was using an actual string as the
message_id. I would have expected something more in the way of:
char *err = get_text_string( THREAD_EXCEPTION_117, \
THREAD
Some questions about implementation:
which scenarios?:
1. external text-file strings (name=value?) chosen at run-time
2. Parrot build-time embedded strings (language chosen at configure)
Do we want to break the messages into sets, such that 256 is 'fatal', 256
to 511 is 'warning', 512 to 767 is
At 09:42 AM 9/24/2001 -0700, Wizard wrote:
Some questions about implementation:
which scenarios?:
1. external text-file strings (name=value?) chosen at run-time
2. Parrot build-time embedded strings (language chosen at configure)
Do we want to break the messages into sets, such that 256 is
GNU does offer the gettext tools library for just such a purpose. I don't
know how it will translate to the various platforms however, and it likely
is a major overkill for what we are trying to do.
http://www.gnu.org/manual/gettext/html_mono/gettext.html#SEC2 - Purpose
It might make sense to
GNU does offer the gettext tools library for just such a purpose. I don't
know how it will translate to the various platforms however, and it likely
is a major overkill for what we are trying to do.
http://www.gnu.org/manual/gettext/html_mono/gettext.html#SEC2 - Purpose
It might make sense
Michael Maraist wrote:
But wouldn't that make parrot GPL'd?
Yes, Yes it would.
(cup o' coffee and a sux donut, please.)
Never mind. I'll take a look at the docs and look around some more and see
what other clever ideas we can't use.
Grant M.
We could use the bsd gettext though, couldn't we?
--Josh
At 12:49 on 09/24/2001 PDT, Wizard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael Maraist wrote:
But wouldn't that make parrot GPL'd?
Yes, Yes it would.
(cup o' coffee and a sux donut, please.)
Never mind. I'll take a look at the docs and look
At 12:38 PM 9/24/2001 -0400, Michael Maraist wrote:
GNU does offer the gettext tools library for just such a purpose. I don't
know how it will translate to the various platforms however, and it likely
is a major overkill for what we are trying to do.
On 09/24/01 Michael Maraist wrote:
GNU does offer the gettext tools library for just such a purpose. I don't
know how it will translate to the various platforms however, and it likely
is a major overkill for what we are trying to do.
At 08:42 PM 9/24/2001 +0200, Paolo Molaro wrote:
On 09/24/01 Michael Maraist wrote:
GNU does offer the gettext tools library for just such a purpose. I don't
know how it will translate to the various platforms however, and it
likely
is a major overkill for what we are trying to do.
GNU does offer the gettext tools library for just such a purpose. I don't
know how it will translate to the various platforms however, and it likely
is a major overkill for what we are trying to do.
http://www.gnu.org/manual/gettext/html_mono/gettext.html#SEC2 - Purpose
It might make
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 08:42:51PM -0700, Wizard wrote:
Is Parrot to have a strings db for error and UI strings (i18n)?
Parrot should not be outputting that many errors or UI strings. However,
those that it does should go through I18N, yes.
If so, it should probably go on the TODO list
At 01:32 AM 9/24/2001 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 08:42:51PM -0700, Wizard wrote:
Is Parrot to have a strings db for error and UI strings (i18n)?
Parrot should not be outputting that many errors or UI strings. However,
those that it does should go through I18N, yes.
So
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