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From: Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] error messages in multiple languages ?
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2017 18:56:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8261755f-fb74-c363-a764-08623c06ce3a@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170408165106.55n6zfwd3tsdxxgw@pema>

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.

- Xavier Leroy



  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-08 16:56 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 [this message]
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
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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