On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 11:07:05AM +0200, Jutta Wrage wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 29.09.04 um 20:11 Uhr schrieb Frank Lichtenheld: > > >>makdict takes simple text files with entries delimited by "::". and > >>makes files for dictd and html pages for different languages out of > >>those files. > > >Why the special fileformat? Why not using something like gettext? > > As far as I understand gettext is used to internationalize programs. > That could be in question for the messages from the program itself. But > I do not see, how it could help with dicts and linking between entries. > And in addition I cannot see, why any format would be easier to keep by > people helping collecting meanings of words and phrases than the > colon-delimited. As far as I understand gettext, it is just to > substitute words and phrases by those in a special language. And a > dictionary does more than that.
Hmm, ok, you're probably right. It may be worth to substitute the VARIABLES file with a gettext solution, though. I will try to find the time in the next days to play around with the code and test how it could be integrated into the web pages. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/
