[Noffle-devel] internationalization of noffle pseudo articles

[<joh...@gm...>]

Hi Folks

I think I could assist in internationalization of the
noffle-pseude-articles (those messages getting return in pseudo.c).
With this patch it would be possible to have a french, german and
english version of e.g. the "article marked for download".

There are some decisions I would like to get examined before I start to code.

+I would suggest to have a file in /etc/noffle/noffle.articles.{ccTLD},
{ccTLD} being the country-Top-Level-Domain for the country generally
associated with that language, e.g. de for german, fr for france ...

Problem: The are maybe some languages which are not specific to a
country (what was the Top-Level-Domain for Esperanto again ;-) ) and
maybe in some country more than language is officially used.

I agree that the filename noffle.articles is quite long. But bear in
mind, that we also need a manpage for this file and it would be quite
... arrogant for noffle to demand such a general word for its manpage  

Question: How shall we determine which user gets his message in which
language. Should there be a global "noffle-now-be-german"-switch in the
config-file ? Should we default german pseudo messages for e.g.
de.*-newsgroups ?

This noffle.articles.{ccTLD} file would have the folloing format
message_entry =  ' < ' message-designator ' > ' \n message-text
message-designator = 'text'
message-text = 'text'

I decided against the standart varX = valueY syntax because I think a
big part in message-text will be newline caracters and the escaping
those would not really help to make the file more readable. I also
decided against the windows-init-file-syntax 
[section1]
foo
bar
because I have seen in in the pseudo messages are also a lot of [s and
]s.

But actually I am not really happy with this syntax. I'll think over it
again. Maybe someone else has a good idea.

So long...
Johannes Madel