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> References: <20020606192159.A22774@phantom.cris.net> <CC758CA4-797E-11D6-8A4B-0050E4A0BB3F@anarcat.ath.cx> <20020610102351.A22945@ark.cris.net>
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--cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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! --cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9BSoattcWHAnWiGcRAtRDAJ9ZeIglPodBTFrht3LtwNEUL1XcKACfWxq0 lWAbgZlLDUCVKgXXoalRT0A= =O/qs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-libh" in the body of the message
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