Re: [Caml-list] error messages in multiple languages ?

["Sébastien Hinderer" <Sebastien.Hinderer@inria.fr>]

Hi,

Gabriel Scherer (2017/04/08 10:43 -0400):
> Hi,
> 
> This is an interesting question and the issue was discussed in 2012 on the
> list:
> 
>   https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list/2012-11/msg00100.html
> 
> Currently there is no mechanism in the compiler codebase to have
> multi-language strings in the compiler. Alexis Irland proposed a patch in
> the above thread ( https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list/2012-11/
> msg00152.html ) that certainly enabled some kind of parametrization, but
> unfortunately the patch files (which were hosted on a personal dropbox)
> seem lost today. (What I have at hand is a French translation of the
> compiler messages made by Jacques-Henri Jourdan, but without a
> parametrization mechanism.)
> 
> I think that this is an interesting idea and I would personally be willing
> to support a well-engineered patch providing the feature

I like the idea, too.

> (the question of
> whether the internationalized messages should be hardcoded in a source file
> or use a sort of gettext-like mechanism is delicate),

Why is it delicate? Why not use gettext itself?

Sébastien.