Re: Parser messages lng

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

Rob Kendrick wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 10:52 -0300, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> > > I think it's helpful to have all parser error messages in extern file
> > > for different languages and added to compilation via defines. Is it
> > > hard to release?
> >
> > Support for messages in different languages is not simple because the
> > position of the varying parts may be different in different languages.
> > See GNU gettext for a tates of how hard this can be.

See the following article to see how *really hard* this can be...
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Locale-Maketext/lib/Locale/Maketext/TPJ13.pod

> On a semi-related note, I noticed this problem too, and wrote my own
> internationalisation library for a program I was working on at the time:
>
> http://trac.rjek.com/index.cgi/file/colloquy/src/i18n.lua

Uses Lua 4.0, as it seems.

Interesting, althought I haven't yet decyphered it fully.
I am not even sure to understand what colloquy does...

> I think it's pretty much over the top in every respect, although it's
> not quite what I want yet.

It uses the powerful feature of Lua of being able to mix functions with 
plain data. That's nice.

The comment:
-- we can't use gsub here, because this may contain information from a user,
-- and as such might contain gsub magic characters.
will seem familiar to readers of a recent thread.
Note that since the Lua environment seems customized, you could have 
provided a substitute function. The main concern of users is that a 
plain gsub isn't available on stock Lua, which is still used a lot as 
generic interpreter.

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