Comments on: cl-i18n

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:59:35 +0000

FWIW, there’s a Lisp implementation of gettext (that uses gettext .mo files; you use the normal gettext tools for everything) in Maxima: http://maxima.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/maxima/maxima/src/intl.lisp

By: Michel

Michel — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:40:23 +0000

Did you look at CL-L10N ?

Can someone tell us the main advantages/disadvantages of the new CL-i18n comparing to CL-L10N ?

By: Leslie

Leslie — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:31:19 +0000

Yeah, I know this document.

I don’t have time to work on a comprehensive framework like this, but maybe Slava from Weblocks will do so.

In the meantime, try cl-i18n; with format strings it’s more powerful than you might think.

By: Robin Powell

Robin Powell — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:35:49 +0000

The problem is, simple i18n solutions are guaranteed to not work; see http://perldoc.perl.org/Locale/Maketext/TPJ13.html for why. Per-language functions, and a clean way of embedding them, are really a requirement. I hope you’ll include MakeText-like things like this so I don’t have to write my own. :)

-Robin

By: Leslie

Leslie — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:22:02 +0000

0.2 actually was the first public release. I’ll put up 0.4 in a moment with a few minor non-code modifications. Thanks again! :)

By: Vilson Vieira

Vilson Vieira — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:45:59 +0000

Leslie, thanks for the acceptance of the contribution :-)

Yes, a Lisp reader would be the right solution. BTW, I followed your suggestion and made the merging possible. I don’t know if it’s the right solution, but it’s working for now.

I refactored the code, renamed some files, used a unique package to base and util functions, included a CHANGELOG (sorry, I don’t have information about 0.2 release, please, can you fix it?). A possible 0.4 release is here:

http://vilson.void.cc/files/cl-i18n-0.4.tar.gz

Be free to modify everything! :-)

Cheers.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:14:00 +0000

I’m glad you like it, mov! :)

I intended to use the Lisp reader for extracting translatable strings, but your cl-ppcre solution is fine with me, too. I’m going to release 0.3 today with your addition, thank you very much!

The next step would be merging new strings into an already existing translation resource (the job of gettext’s msgmerge tool). This should be a trivial matter by reading what’s already there and finding the set-difference.

Leslie

By: Vilson Vieira

Vilson Vieira — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 02:42:14 +0000

Hi, congratulations about cl-i18n, I loved your dead simple solution :-)

I’ve made a quick-and-dirty hack to read a CL source file searching for #!”strings” and generate the i18n file. It’s here:

http://vilson.void.cc/files/i18n-util.lisp

Cheers.