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From: dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: [9fans] localization
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:59:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201104271759.08417.dexen.devries@gmail.com> (raw)

browsing through uriel's slides from fosdem 2006 [1], i see him mention Plan 9 
lacks localization. what are this lists feelings on localization (both 
translation of strings and formatting of numbers, time etc.) of user-facing 
applications?

the only model i know right now is gettext() and related from GNU; there's 
gotta be a better way; perhaps an fs for it? ;-)

[1] http://cm.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/uriel/slides/fosdem06/slides.pdf
-- 
dexen deVries

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             reply	other threads:[~2011-04-27 15:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-27 15:59 dexen deVries [this message]
2011-04-27 16:14 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-27 17:08   ` Gabriel Diaz
2011-04-27 17:20     ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2011-04-27 18:17       ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-27 20:45         ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2011-04-27 20:51           ` dexen deVries
2011-04-27 21:00           ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-27 21:52           ` smiley
2011-04-27 18:04 ` tlaronde
2011-04-27 21:29   ` Iruatã Souza
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-02-05 12:52 Sergey Reva
2005-02-05 14:51 ` Steve Simon

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