On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
On Jan 23, 2009, at 10:37 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
So, do you really think that Tcl's GetText 'format' is being used at all
outside of Tcl? It's not like it's the same format as used in GNU GetText.
Considering Tcl's msgcat is listed in the official GNU gettext manual as
"fully portable", I think it is safe to say yes:
http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/gettext/Tcl.html
But Tcl's msgcat is using its own *.msg file format instead of *.po.
Here is one: http://www.gted.org/
Does it support Tcl's *.msg files, or only *.po ? I only see a mention of
*.po.
Do you need a well debugged and optimised library for accessing a hashtable
when the language already has commands for accessing hashtables freely?
Do you really think that accessing a hashtable is all there is to
localization? How about parsing the names of the locales (en_US,
en_US.UTF-8, en_GB, etc.)? That is non-trivial and handled by msgcat, as are
many other things we haven't thought of, but the people who have been working
on gettext/msgcat since
Yeah, this is what most of the msgcat library does. If you remove the
locale autodetection code from it, there's not much code left. I don't
really mind setting the language myself though. Yet it'd be fine with me
if the locale were autodetected.
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