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

[Adrien Nader <adrien@notk.org>]

On Sat, Apr 08, 2017, Xavier Leroy wrote:
> On 04/08/2017 06:51 PM, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:
> 
> >> This implementation was pretty short and sweet, if I may say so myself, and
> >> possibly easier to use than gettext because by construction the english
> >> message was always available, even if translations were missing by
> >> mistake.
> > 
> > I am not following you here. Isn't that exactly the behaviour gettext
> > provides?
> 
> Oops, yes, you're probably right.  I was confusing gettext with the (early?)
> Java i18n library where every message was to be given a unique, short
> identifier, then be looked up in a resource file.

As far as I know this is also similar to catgets(3) which is the
i18n facility standardized in POSIX. The gettext documentation gives an
overview of it:
  http://gnu.huihoo.org/gettext-0.10.35/html_chapter/gettext_8.html

Unsurprisingly, pretty much everyone uses gettext rather than catgets.

Personally I've enjoyed using gettext and I've found that it provided
the features needed for a proper translation in a pretty good way.

I know that several large projects do translation updates during feature
freezes and bug fix periods (i.e. during release candidates). There are
also some (web) platforms to open the translation process to more people
(LibreOffice, XFCE and many others use transifex).

-- 
Adrien Nader