I18N module

deadalnix deadalnix at gmail.com
Mon Feb 20 11:12:50 PST 2012


Le 20/02/2012 20:04, Johannes Pfau a écrit :
> Am Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:28:33 -0200
> schrieb Jose Armando Garcia<jsancio at gmail.com>:
>
>> I have been thinking of making a module for i18n model after gettext
>> but taking advantage of D's language features. Is there some interest
>> in this?
>
> Yep we need this. I also thought about developing an i18n module maybe
> we can work together on one. I won't have time for it the next 3
> weeks though.
> Anyway, I think we should base our i18n module on boost.locale
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_48_0/libs/locale/doc/html/index.html
> but boost.locale is pretty big, we should probably start with the
> translation part only:
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_48_0/libs/locale/doc/html/index.html
>
> The API is quite good imho. It'll need some changes to fit D better,
> but I think this could become a nice D style API.
>
> Boost.locale uses the gettext format internally which is important.
> This way we can use all the gettext tools&  websites and the translator
> community (https://www.transifex.net/start/).
>
> BTW: I already have code to read the gettext format, so that could be
> used.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Jose
>>
>

Great initiative, but can you please start this in a new thread ? This 
one is already quite hard to follow :D


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