Re: Translating to Chinese, Spanish and Japanese (and more)

[Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>]

pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> writes:

> On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 01:26:04PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>> Simple XML might be a better candidate for a DSL.  Translators would get
>> a string like “<link>Installation instructions</link>.” and give us back
>> a translated string such as “<link>安装说明</link>。” On the haunt side
>> we would have a procedure that parses the XML to SXML and we could
>> operate on the S-expression.  So instead of this:
>>
>
> Ah, that is what you mean by XML.  I used "link|Installation
> instructions" for that, but yes, maybe XML is easier to understand /
> more familiar for translators.

What’s good about using XML is that we already have parser and tooling
support for it.  It can even be nested (though you shouldn’t go
overboard with it), which may sometimes be necessary, and we can easily
and programmatically access individual parts of the XML tree with sxpath
and the like.

> I believe this Gettext support should be separate from Haunt so it can
> be reused e.g. for Web servers written in Guile.

Yes, I agree.  After playing with it for a while on the train it looks
like it could be implemented without modifying Haunt at all.

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Ricardo

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