Internationalization support and format strings

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Tuesday, 25 March 2025 at 09:23:56 UTC, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Paul Backus wrote:
>> Have you seen this package?
>>
>> https://code.dlang.org/packages/gettext
>
> Thanks for the hint. Yes, I have looked at all of these:
> https://code.dlang.org/packages/libintl
> https://code.dlang.org/packages/gettext
> https://code.dlang.org/packages/i18nd
> https://code.dlang.org/packages/mofile
> https://code.dlang.org/packages/djtext
>
> They all have very small "Download Stats", indicating that 
> their actual use in applications is nonexistent or irrelevant.

https://code.dlang.org/packages/gettext is, as far as I know, 
being used in a real application, and was developed specifically 
for that application, for one of D's major users in industry (see 
Bastiaan's talk in 2023: https://dconf.org/2023/#veelob)

I would focus on that one for de-facto standardization. Likely it 
has a small number of users, but would be actively fixed if 
issues are found.

And also, the formatting bugs should all be fixed as well, 
regardless of gettext support.

-Steve