2000-09-26-08:10:54 Webmaster:
> Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrote:
> >Perl 6 needs some kind of internationalisation and therefore message
> >catalogue support. Really needs, with great urgency.
>
> Doesn't RFC 85 address this to some extent? By offering up 'error codes'
> can't the programmer just "insert-test-here"? Then again, if 85 is
> implemented well, then it would probably be really easy to do this.
As I read it, RFC 85 proposes two routes for getting at the errors,
numeric error numbers and text error strings. The former i18n-ize
naturally, but the latter really highlight the problem trying to
make perl source code aggressively i18n. Is everybody going to use
english (or american:-) strings for comparing to the error
classification strings, abandoning i18n for that bit of perl coding?
Or is perl source code gonna have to be fed through a translator to
convert the strings specified in the source code to the local
language?
-Bennett
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