Re: gettext

[Andreas Schwab]

address@hidden (Vlada von Strasnic) writes:

|> i'm currently writing some programs and i'm 99% decided not to use gettext,
|> because the problems, which are mentioned up. There is one more:
|>  Structure of catalogs is this:
|>         ../locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/my_program_name.mo
|>         ../       de/           /..
|>         ../       sk/           /..
|>         ../                     /..
|> 
|>  What if my country has several dialects ??? How can i write several
|> catalogs for one country.
|> 
|>         ../locale/cs_official/LC_MESSAGES/my_program_name.mo
|>         ../locale/cs_morava/LC_MESSAGES/my_program_name.mo
|>         ../locale/cs_praha/LC_MESSAGES/my_program_name.mo

ITYM language instead of country (cs is a language code, not a country
code).  Use @modifier to distinguish dialects.  See address@hidden in
sharutils for an example.

Andreas.

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