From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rich@annexia.org>
To: Tao Stein <taostein@gmail.com>
Cc: OCaml Mailing List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] error messages in multiple languages ?
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 15:05:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170411140512.GK28111@annexia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABs4TjKhD-3odzvWcMeHEtn7PTpTf-qTENY9xFq0yoBDJDHOYQ@mail.gmail.com>
It looks like people have already mentioned getttext.
I want to add that OCaml already has an excellent gettext
implementation. No need to reinvent any wheels.
https://forge.ocamlcore.org/projects/ocaml-gettext/
We use it every day in libguestfs, an example picked at random
(there are thousands more):
https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/master/v2v/input_libvirt.ml#L39
Therefore you might think I'd be very exciting about having the OCaml
compiler messages being localized. That not so much. I find that it
makes it considerably easier to search for error messages, and also to
help people, if they are in a single language. It's for this reason
that we don't translate debugging and other internal messages in our
tools. (But being an English native speaker it's a lot easier for me,
so take this with a pinch of salt.)
Rich.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-11 14:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-08 14:22 Tao Stein
2017-04-08 14:43 ` Gabriel Scherer
2017-04-08 15:03 ` Sébastien Hinderer
2017-04-08 16:38 ` Xavier Leroy
2017-04-08 16:51 ` Sébastien Hinderer
2017-04-08 16:56 ` Xavier Leroy
2017-04-09 19:50 ` Adrien Nader
2017-04-10 6:14 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-04-10 13:20 ` Tao Stein
2017-04-10 13:45 ` Evgeny Roubinchtein
2017-04-10 14:04 ` Tao Stein
2017-04-10 18:07 ` Adrien Nader
2017-04-10 19:45 ` Hendrik Boom
2017-04-10 19:49 ` Dušan Kolář
2017-04-11 0:38 ` Tao Stein
2017-04-11 14:05 ` Richard W.M. Jones [this message]
2017-04-11 14:18 ` Gabriel Scherer
2017-04-11 14:59 ` Tao Stein
2017-04-11 17:17 ` Allan Wegan
2017-04-11 19:07 ` Glen Mével
2017-04-11 23:04 ` Allan Wegan
2017-04-12 0:12 ` Tao Stein
2017-04-16 22:37 ` Evgeny Roubinchtein
2017-04-09 17:15 Андрей Бергман
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