On Friday, 27 January 2006, at 08:26:29 (+0900),
David Stevenson wrote:
> I don't want to do something that would be undesirable, but for the
> consideration of those others who will decide whether or not to
> apply patches, I will state what started this off.
>
> Massimo (it.po translater) had this to say on the e-intl list:
I should probably point out that I'm not on that list, just FYI. :)
> For default C locale users I can understand that having this po
> stuff could be "cruft", but the config dialogs look messy for anyone
> using a non-english language. For these users, it's not cruft, it's
> functionality.
Okay, let me explain my opposition to internationalization, after
which I'm going to let it go because it's an argument I'm not going to
win.
1. gettext sucks donkey balls. Go back a year or two in the mailing
list archive to see all the pain we went through trying to support
the various (incompatible) versions of gettext. Horrible.
2. It spews crap all over the filesystem. *.mo files get thrown into
/usr/share/locale for every locale a program supports, even if I
never use any of those locales!
3. It's fundamentally flawed. The problem of native language support
is not simply a problem of replacing one set of strings with
another set of strings as gettext and friends would have you
believe. It is a problem of separating the information you want
to convey from the method of conveyance. That includes text,
formatting, direction...numerous factors.
4. It's an SCM nightmare. Any time you so much as sneeze on your
code, you've got a bajillion .po file changes. Just look at E
0.16's CVS history. See all those 3000- to 5000-line po/ commits?
Yeah, that sucks.
Michael
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