On Montag, Jänner 20, 2003, at 05:08 Uhr, Carsten Klapp wrote:
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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)
Welcome to the club...
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. =:-/)That means I can count you in? We are in the same boat then, I guess that is rather good since we can both go along and learn what we need.
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.
Great.
I would guess it has native support for that since I did see it compiling something akeen to UTF8 when I recompiled to have perl 5.8 on my system.
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?)I would suggest, that we stick to UTF-8, even though we might also have to think about supporting UTF-16 with all the languages in the asian areas we might come across. However this would depend greatly on what teh terminal the people are using can handle.
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?
I need to learn about that as well.
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- Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream to dream before.." Edgar Allen Poe - The Raven
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