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Re: client side l10n: remaining issues?

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu>
Date: 2004-04-23 02:10:56 CEST

Peter N. Lundblad wrote:

>On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, [UTF-8] Branko Ä^Libej wrote:
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>>Peter N. Lundblad wrote:
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>>>When I worked on OpenJade some years ago, we used gettext for l10n, but
>>>not on Windows. INstead, we used a script to put the translations in
>>>Windows resource files. We could do womething similar, and compile each
>>>translation into its own DLL. Then we wouldn't need the gettext runtime at
>>>all. ONe would still need the tools for development however.
>>>
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>>Please no, that's a most horrible idea. Gettext is more than just
>>message translation; you'd have to reimplement the whole ngettext logic
>>on Windows, for example, and we _don't_ want to have this kind of code
>>in Subversion.
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>Good point if we ever use ngettext. Is that available in more gettexts
>than GNU gettext?
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I understand the latest Solaris version supports it.

-- Brane

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