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From: Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org, Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: i18n, gettext support
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 10:58:06 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wtzqr7q9.fsf@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200408202226.10769.bruno@clisp.org

Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> writes:
>
> (use-modules (i18n))

It's probably important enough to have in the core.

> (set! (i18n:textdomain) "hello-guile")

I'd just call the functions plain "textdomain" etc.

> (define _ i18n:gettext)

Could provide that binding by default, to encourage its use.

> The ice-9 format string facility with its ~n@* facility is sufficient for
> i18n.

Many programs probably use only the core `simple-format' version of
format, which lacks ~*.  Might be worth adding there.


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  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-23  0:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-20 20:26 i18n, gettext support Bruno Haible
2004-08-23  0:58 ` Kevin Ryde [this message]
2004-09-01 16:25 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2004-09-01 20:57   ` Bruno Haible
2004-09-02  9:38     ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2004-09-02 16:06       ` Bruno Haible
2004-09-02 16:21         ` Bruno Haible
2004-09-03  1:34           ` Kevin Ryde
2004-09-04 17:25             ` Bruno Haible
2004-09-07  0:13               ` Kevin Ryde
2004-09-07 12:38                 ` Bruno Haible
2004-09-08  1:10                   ` Kevin Ryde
2004-09-07  8:20             ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2004-09-07 14:16               ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2004-09-08  1:15                 ` Kevin Ryde
2004-09-08  8:58                   ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2004-09-08 10:39                   ` Bruno Haible
2004-09-08 14:37                     ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2004-09-08 16:37                       ` Bruno Haible
2004-09-08 21:53                     ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2004-09-08 22:45                       ` Kevin Ryde
2004-09-08 23:46                         ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2004-09-09 16:25                           ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2004-09-15 11:20                             ` Bruno Haible
2004-09-22  0:42                             ` Marius Vollmer
2004-09-22 14:55                               ` Bruno Haible
2004-09-02 17:32         ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2004-09-01 21:44   ` Kevin Ryde

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