Very informative article, perl Maketext sure sounds powerful!
I've done a lot of gettext work in PHP and C and often find I am frustrated by it's limitations, never-mind the extra time to educate English-speakers how to write _("translation-friendly") English strings in our project's code... (that article explains the issues very nicely)
I am looking for a good excuse to learn some perl, this might just be it. :) (Sometimes I see a bit of perl code which really impresses on me how powerful a language it is, but usually my head starts to spin when I try to read too much perl in one sitting. =:-/)
So count me in, I'd love to help try to localize fink (and learn some perl too). I speak English (obviously) and German, can read some Dutch and French.
A few questions--clearly I don't know much about perl:
* Does perl support UTF-8 already or does it need some kind of module for that?
* Are fink info files defined to use a specific character set? (i.e. iso-8859-1, Mac-Roman, UTF-8, ASCII?)
Since all the info files I have seen are only in English one might assume this issue has not yet "officially" been addressed, and that all are just US-ASCII.
* Is there a mechanism for Maketext similar to gettext's 'xgettext' program to extract strings from source code?
Thanks,
Carsten
On Sunday, January 19, 2003, at 08:07 pm, David wrote:
On Montag, Jänner 20, 2003, at 12:27 Uhr, Max Horn wrote:Just found back that nice article about localizing perl programs on CPAN.Thank you! I am very grateful for any kind of info, localisation si very high on my list.
http://search.cpan.org/author/SBURKE/Locale-Maketext-1.03/lib/Locale/ Maketext/TPJ13.pod
It's an interesting read even if you don't plan to localize something right now :-)
- -d
PS: I am a C and asm guy.. so any perl coders want to help? thank you..
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