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Date:      Mon, 10 Jun 2002 18:37:15 -0400
From:      The Anarcat <anarcat@anarcat.ath.cx>
To:        Alexey Zelkin <phantom@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-libh@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: www progress.html
Message-ID:  <20020610223715.GA295@lenny.anarcat.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <20020610102351.A22945@ark.cris.net>
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On Mon Jun 10, 2002 at 10:23:51AM +0300, Alexey Zelkin wrote:
> hi,
>=20
> On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 02:54:15PM -0400, Antoine Beaupre wrote:
>=20
> > > Just took a look and have a question: Why
> > > Multilanguage support milstone is referencing to
> > > Citrus project ? Citrus is NetBSD based project.
> > > Or correctly to say FreeBSD based, but NetBSD oriented.
> >=20
> > Ah. I wasn't aware of that. I thought Citrus was also FreeBSD-oriented.
> It's not easy to understand because project has quite a little
> english documents. They're mostly japanese.

I haven't looked far, but I didn't even found those. :)=20

> > The milestone references the citrus project because it is the only thin=
g=20
> > I know on the FreeBSD camp that intends to make a full BSD replacement=
=20
> > for gettext.
> Yeah. This is one of main points in my TODO list -- checking & importing
> Citrus's libintl (gettext library) to main source tree, but due to big
> overload with real work it's not done yet.=20

Well, from what I could tell at first sight, libintl doesn't have a
msg* commands to format catalogs, just gettext library functions.

Am I mistaken?

> > > FreeBSD has enough infrastructure to i18n support And
> > > actually has better multilanguage support comparing to
> > > Net and Open BSDs (at least for single-byte charsets)
> >=20
> > Maybe for charsets and such, but is there really a non-GPL gettext=20
> > implementation in FreeBSD? I don't think so.
> It is. Almost. As soon as I get finished with testing Citrus's libintl.=
=20

I could help in porting it if needs arises, but I have close to no
knowledge to NetBSD's source. :)

> > I'm not worried about locale (dates, strings), but translation of outpu=
t=20
> > language.
> :-) You don't need to worry about locale because It Just Works.

That I know. No problem with that. It's just the message catalog
management I need to find.

At any rate, I think it would be a wise thing to do to tag all new
(and old) libh code with traditional gettext macros.

A.

--=20
=46rom the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of
Big Brother, from the age of doublethink - greetings!

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