Re: [icu-support] Genrb / res bundle APIs vs gencat / catgets

[George R. <gr...@us...>]

You shouldn't be adding your resource bundles to resfile.mk or=20
reslocal.mk.

You should look at http://icu.sourceforge.net/userguide/localizing.html=20
for examples of using ICU's resource bundle.  You can also look at=20
icu/source/samples/ufortune in case you want a concrete example of using=20
ICU resource bundles.

The catgets function always returns a codepage dependent string, while=20
ures=5FgetStringByKey returns only UTF-16.  Both APIs have various strength=
s=20
and weaknesses.  ICU4C models its behavior after Java's resource bundle=20
API.

If you want to know specific limitations of ICU's resource bundles, you=20
will have to ask more specific questions.

George Rhoten
IBM Globalization Center of Competency/ICU  San Jos=E9, CA, USA
http://www.icu-project.org/
http://icu.sourceforge.net/



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I'm trying to get a better understanding of ICU resource bundles.

When developing with ICU on Linux, is there any limitation on using gencat =

to generate a message catalog from message source text, then retrieving=20
them using catgets, instead of using ICU APIs such as ures=5FgetByKey(..)?

Or is there a relationship between specifying locales in resfiles.mk /=20
reslocal.mk when building ICU and using genrb, then retrieving messages=20
using ICU APIs.

In other words, what are the specific implications or results of=20
specifying locales in .../source/data/locales?  Does this have any effect=20
on how I generate or retrieve resources?

Ron Rodriguez
Software Engineer
Hewlett-Packard Co.
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