Maketext library

Jason Johnson jason.johnson.081 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 12 18:22:15 UTC 2007


Ok, here is a better link:

http://search.cpan.org/~petdance/Locale-Maketext-1.10/lib/Locale/Maketext/TPJ13.pod

On 10/12/07, Jason Johnson <jason.johnson.081 at gmail.com> wrote:
> You didn't look at the link. :)  The point is that gettext is only
> useful in the most trivial of cases.  From a functional programming
> point of view, a mapping from one language to another can't always be
> expressed as a simple string translation.  In many cases it has to be
> a function, and that's what this library allows you to do.
>
> On 10/12/07, Paolo Bonzini <bonzini at gnu.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Does anyone know of anything like this for Squeak?  I'm sure something
> > > like this could be made much more powerful and elegant in ST.
> > >
> > > If there isn't, then this would be a good project for someone.  This
> > > kind of thing will get more and more important on the web. (and yes, I
> > > will do it myself if no one else does by the time I get around to it
> > > :).
> >
> > Gettext is available for GNU Smalltalk, it should not be hard to port it.
> >
> > Paolo
> >
> >
>



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