[Caml-list] localization

[Caml-list] localization

[Yurii A.Rashkovskii]

Guys and gals,

Is there any standard (or semi-standard) approach for program localization in OCaml? (something like gettext, or better) I mean I want to make message output in current locale (English, French, Ukranian, Russian and so on :) as easy as it is possible.

Awaiting for the reply,
Yurii.
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Re: [Caml-list] localization

[Jérôme Marant]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 09:48:18AM +0300, Yurii A.Rashkovskii wrote:
> Guys and gals,

Hi,

> 
> Is there any standard (or semi-standard) approach for program localization in OCaml? (something like gettext, or better) I mean I want to make message output in current locale (English, French, Ukranian, Russian and so on :) as easy as it is possible.

  I've written a small OCaml binding for gettext and I can get my
  localized po files generated with xgettext.
  It need a bit of testing though. 

  Cheers,

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Jérôme Marant
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Re: [Caml-list] localization

[Shawn Wagner]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 09:48:18AM +0300, Yurii A.Rashkovskii wrote:
> Guys and gals,
> 

> Is there any standard (or semi-standard) approach for program localization
> in OCaml? (something like gettext, or better) I mean I want to make message
> output in current locale (English, French, Ukranian, Russian and so on :) as
> easy as it is possible.

Here's an idea for an interface to gettext:

Use camlp4 to define a new string literal type (Perhaps using TeX-like
quotes: ``foo''), with one camlp4 module rewriting them into a call to the
translation function for normal compilation, and a second module that is
used to create a .pot file that's used just like one generated from C code
by xgettext. The idea is to make it fairly transparent, and simple to mark
strings that should be translated, without having to clutter up your code
with a lot of things like (Gettext.translate "Something ugly just
happened."). Calling textdomain() or bindtextdomain() would still have to be
done manually (And even that can probably be automated), but otherwise it
should be cleaner than using gettext in C.

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Shawn Wagner
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Re: [Caml-list] localization

[John Max Skaller]

Shawn Wagner wrote:

>Here's an idea for an interface to gettext:
>
>Use camlp4 to define a new string literal type 
>
Yeah, that's a very good idea; you can use it to write
text in your native language and worry about translations
later (indeed, delegate the work, since few people know
all the world's languages ..)

One could even "reprocess" the original source
code to replace the literals in say French with
ones in say English.. so I could read the code
more easily. 

"""BTW: Python triple quoted strings
are an interesting idea"""

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