[icu-support] Problems with 1st steps in resource bundle usage from C++

[Gaston G. <gas...@we...>]

I am trying to test the resource bundles of ICU for localization. I have
read a lot so far as well as found some examples, but still do not manage to
get it work.

 

What I have:

 

Resources source files:

 

root.txt de.txt fr.txt …

 

Example content:

 

root.txt:

 

root {

  shot { "shot" }

  woods { "woods" }

  sentence { "I heard a {0} in the {1}." }

}

 

de.txt:

 

de {

  shot { "Schu" }

  woods { "Wäldern" }

  sentence { "In den {1} hörte ich einen {0}." }

}

 

I compile those into .res files by the following command

 

#genrb root.txt de.txt fr.txt en.txt en_US.txt

 

Then

 

# echo de.res en.res en_US.res fr.res root.res >packagelist.txt

# pkgdata --name icures --mode common -v -T tmp -d . packagelist.txt

 

BTW, opposed to the examples I saw, I was required to have a tempdir
specified with –T else I get an error:

 

Unable to move dat file (./icures.dat) to target location (./icures.dat).

 

All these files are in the subdirectory icures/ as seen fomr the test
program, after I read about the changes in processing since V2 of ICU

 

In C++ I have the following:

 

  UErrorCode status = U_ZERO_ERROR;

  ResourceBundle resourceBundle("icures/icures", "de", status);

 

  if(U_FAILURE(status))

   {

     std::cerr<<"Can't open resource bundle. Error is
"<<u_errorName(status)<<std::endl;

    return;

   }

 

 

Which I have also tries to use with no locale (“”) and always get:

 

Can't open resource bundle. Error is U_MISSING_RESOURCE_ERROR

 

I have done many steps in trying to get this to work, but unfortunately with
no success. Looking at the source code suggests that the code is not able to
even find the root.

 

Any clues would be greatly appreciated :-)

 

Gaston.