Re: [Openinteract-dev] OI2 + CSS + XHTML thoughts

[Teemu A. <te...@io...>]

> I had a thought about this. From what I understand gettext uses .po
> files to store its data. These are text files in a particular format.
>
> There's a perl module Locale::Maketext::Lexicon [1] that's able to
> read PO or MO files into Locale::Maketext format, which is what we're
> using.
>
> What if OI2 supported both its native .properties format as well as
> the PO format? (I'm not sure where the MO format comes from, but if
> it's easy to support we could throw that in as well.) That would allow
> you to use existing l10n-editing tools but OI2 to continue to use its
> existing framework. Is that reasonable/possible?

That's exactly what I had in mind. MO is simply compiled PO. You write your stuff
in as PO files and those get compiled in some weird MO files. I don't know which is
faster, I guess MO is more designed towards C-based applications. You can manipulate
and play around with MO files with tools from the GNU gettext toolset.

> FWIW, I'm also still noodling over the abstract vs concrete message
> keys and *may* wind up automatically translating all keys in OI2 to
> concrete.

Ok ;)

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