On Jan 23, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: > 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.
http://wiki.tcl.tk/1488 "GNU gettext has support (since V 0.13 [1]) for Tcl msgcat and conversion tools from and to PO format. http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/"; .hc > > >>> 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. > > _ _ __ ___ _____ ________ _____________ _____________________ ... > | Mathieu Bouchard - tél:+1.514.383.3801, Montréal, Québec ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The arc of history bends towards justice. - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. _______________________________________________ Pd-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev
