On Sunday, 28 September 2014 at 21:29:21 UTC, Cliff wrote:
Coming from the C# world, all of localization we did was based
on defining string resource files (XML-formatted source files
which were translated into C# classes with named-string
accessors by the build process) that would get included in the
final application. For log messages, exception messages
(because unhandled exceptions could make it to the user in the
case of a bug) and format strings used for the above we would
create a string table entry and this file would eventually get
localized by the appropriate team.
Is there a recommended pattern for applications in D that wish
to do localization?
Thanks.
I don't know. But JSON is very popular in the D community. dub,
the package manager uses it for configuration files, I use JSON
for the same purpose in my applications. Although the present
std.json is not up to current D standards (still?), it is
perfectly usable. Alternatively you can have a look at vibe.d's
implementation (http://vibed.org/api/vibe.data.json/) which I use
in vibe.d apps.
I do not recommend XML, not only because it may be overkill for
localization, but because the std.xml module should have been put
down a long time ago. If you do want to use XML, however, you may
have a look at Adam D. Ruppe's dom.d[1][2].
In the D community JSON is usually preferred to XML.
[1] https://github.com/adamdruppe/HTML-DOM
[2] https://github.com/adamdruppe/arsd
