Excerpts from Tero Tilus's message of lun nov 02 14:58:09 +0100 2009: > William Morgan, 2009-11-02 14:12: > > Tero's comment wasn't about gettext, as far as I understand it. > > You had me right. I was talking about the approach to i18n in general.
Sorry, I think the problem here is my English. I understood Tero's comment wasn't about gettext, I was the one suggesting: "everybody's using gettext, why don't we?" > > There are Ruby gettext bindings but they look like a pain in the ass > > to use, and it's pretty trivial to replace it a language like Ruby. > > Also they are pretty trivial to wrap behind nice interface in a > language like Ruby. "Been there, done that!".t :) And you both answered that question... I'm just a hobbyist ruby programmer, never used gettext. I transleted a program that use it (my previous mail client :D) so I can read a .po file (I don't understand why this is a problem, though). I thought it was an easy, ready-made thing to implement, if I'm wrong, no problem, there is always a better solution. > > I believe he was thinking about something like git grep. You see a > > weird message displayed by Sup, you want to find the code that's > > generating it, you can git grep the source for the message directly. > > That was exactly what I was thinking. > > Having weird keys in code imo also slows down development. If I want > to (write code to) display a simple message to user, with "original > language as key" approac i just write "my message".t (or whatever the > l10n interface is) instead of modifying some yaml file somewhere and > then copy-pasting the key from there to code. I just plain code and > let somebody else figure out the translation later or. > Sorry, I don't understand what you mean. The idea is to (1) have a branch for every language? Translators directly write in the code? Or (2) "original language as key" means a way to substitute "on the fly" the original string with another one in the current locale? In this way you always need a yaml file, or a ruby hash, or a .po file (you can implement it in another way, but is the gettext approach...). So, I played a little with irb... do you mean something like: class String def t l10n_hash[self] || self end end Sounds good to me... "bye bye".t => "ciao ciao" _______________________________________________ sup-talk mailing list sup-talk@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/sup-talk