RE: International support in Lua

[Tony Finch <dot@...>]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Patrick Donnelly wrote:

> Make a couple files, each for their respective nationality, and fill
> them with global strings. You can probably make some function if not in
> Lua then in C (I assume you are using) that will get the location of the
> user of your program. Simply at the top of the chunk (the file)
> put:First file:  if not GetLocation = "X" then return end;  ERROR1 =
> "Attempt to index a nil value";Second file:  if not GetLocation = "Y"
> then return end; ERROR1 = "Attempt to index a nil value"; --In Y language

Gnu gettext does exactly this. What the original poster is asking for is
to have hooks in the Lua core that support this functionality.

Tony.
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