Re: [dcplusplus-devel] Internationalization

[David G. <c0...@cs...>]

Jacek Sieka skrev:
> - I don't know of any other reasonable formatting solutions (steven suggested printf which on most
> unices supports positional arguments by using %m$ but that's not supported on unix and still
> requires manual memory managment...)
>   
Did you mean that win32 doesn't have positional parameters? I'm not a 
win32 developer, but what about printf_p? Doesn't seem that standard 
though...

printf_p: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bt7tawza(VS.80).aspx

> - One possible solution would be to use our own string replacement routines ("%[xxx]")...this is
> slightly ugly since we have to create a map each time and convert the arguments to strings manually
> (Util::toString), and we lose some of the tooling support that gettext offers for standard format
> strings.
>   
Why just not use the syntax of printf's positional parameters? Since 
gettext recognizes them. Also, translators are more likely to recognize 
something that is commonly used.

> * dcpp/ and win32/ would have separate translation files - but since the strings for both the win32
> and linux gui are similar, it would be nice to have a way to synchronize those strings every now and
> then. I'm not sure if there are some tools to merge all equal strings from two po's and leave the
> rest alone, but if there aren't a script would be nice here too...
>   
The gnutext manual is geared towards the use case where two packages are 
merged. I would need to read further, but I think it's possible to 
"sync" translations between win32/linux using msgcomm and msgcat 
intelligently.

I'm glad to hear this talk about i18n... :)

David (individ)