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Re: i18n, gettext support


From: Kevin Ryde
Subject: Re: i18n, gettext support
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 10:58:06 +1000
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Bruno Haible <address@hidden> 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 address@hidden 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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