Le 20/02/2012 18:28, Jose Armando Garcia a écrit :
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:

    On 2/20/12 10:16 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

        "Andrei Alexandrescu"<[email protected]
        <mailto:[email protected]>>  wrote in message
        news:jhtq31$u8q$1@digitalmars.__com...


            Again, I think this thread clarified we need the
            "Variant[string] info;"
            member however we define the hierarchy.


        I disagree. I don't see a need for that.


    How would we address custom formatting of e.g. error messages?


This may not be D. Gettext says to solve it as follow:

throw new Exception(gettext("Cool English message at
%s.").format(DateTime.now()))

The gettext "compiler" goes through the code an generates all the
strings that need to be localized. The translation teams modifies those
string and you store them in file/map for that language. At runtime the
i18n library turns gettext(...) into a query into that map and returns
the actual localized string. There is a map for the entire process.

Localization can also be disable at compile time by making gettext a
template and generating a "noop" for that operation.

I have been thinking of making a module for i18n model after gettext but
taking advantage of D's language features. Is there some interest in this?


This is definitively something that should be integrated into phobos IMO.

Thanks,
-Jose


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