From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org, Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: AM_GNU_GETTEXT weirdness
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 21:55:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200409282155.20886.bruno@clisp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ljlleu9pxd.fsf@troy.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>
Marius Vollmer wrote:
> There is at least one gettext implementation in Scheme and maybe we
> could just ship that...
There's nothing wrong with emulating the C-written libintl library in a
higher-level language, in principle. Python, GNU Smalltalk, and OCaml,
for example, do this. They wrote all the necessary infrastructure
(character set converters - iconv() equivalent, and the code for parsing
and managing .mo files in memory) from scratch in their high-level language.
It's a choice of "slim vs. thick".
When libintl added extra features for Farsi and Arabic, you get them for
free by using libintl. With the emulation approach, you need to emulate
this as well, or you cannot use .mo files that make use of these features.
It's a choice of "reuse vs. reimplement".
Bruno
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-28 19:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-24 2:40 AM_GNU_GETTEXT weirdness Marius Vollmer
2004-09-24 7:17 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2004-09-24 23:36 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-09-25 7:13 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2004-09-28 16:07 ` Bruno Haible
2004-09-28 19:03 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-09-28 19:55 ` Bruno Haible [this message]
2004-09-28 21:13 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-09-25 21:30 ` Kevin Ryde
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