[Mimersbrunn-tcltk] Re: encodings and fallback

[Veronica L. <in...@na...>]

>- Generally type msg strings in UTF-8 and build a mechanism in msgcat
that
>it uses this encoding for the last argument of mcset (As tags I generally
>use symbolic tags and no printable text which makes programming easier
>(codepage horror)).
>

This is actually solved in msgcat 1.2.2 (you can get it from cvs, it's not
yet included in any release though. It automatically loads the msg-files
in utf-8 encoding.
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/tcl/tcl/library/msgcat/

I would suggest either use the new version or just implement the utf-8
encoding loading yourself, you can see how its done in either the code for
msgcat or have a look at i18n-howto at developer exchange
http://dev.scriptics.com/doc/howto/i18n.html


>But I want to have a fallback to a default string if I do (partial)
>translations. This does not work any more. I get the symbolic name as
>default translation.
>
>Wouldn't it possible to define a default fallback language to look up if
>the default does not have a translation ?
>

You should be able to do something like that by using the mcunknown
command

::msgcat::mcunknown locale src-string
This routine is called by ::msgcat::mc in the case when a translation for
src-string is not defined in the current locale. The default action is to
return src-string. This procedure can be redefined by the application, for
example to log error messages for each unknown string. The
::msgcat::mcunknown procedure is invoked at the same stack context as the
call to ::msgcat::mc. The return vaue of ::msgcat::mcunknown is used as
the return vaue for the call to ::msgcat::mc.



- Veronica Loell