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Re: [Discuss-gnustep] Localization
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Frederic Stark |
Subject: |
Re: [Discuss-gnustep] Localization |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Sep 2000 18:07:26 +0200 |
> Actually, if I have to say it all :), and scandalize everyone with a
> modest proposal, why don't we hack NSConstantString to
automatically and
> silently translate every constant string into the current locale.
Was about to rant against this. The time I understood the 'modest
proposal' reference, I had already hit the reply button.
> That would be programmer-friendly programming: everything you write is
> always and automatically localized without programmer's
intervention. It
> would even be better than gettext - you don't even need the _().
>
> This is a proposal meant more to scandalize than to be taken seriously,
> but it sums up what I think should be the aim of localization API
efforts:
> complete total silent automatical localization without any programmer's
> intervention. :)
What about silently looking on the web to babelfish the application
automagically at run time ? :-)
Cheers,
--fred
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