Re: [GNU Herds]: Localization

[Nickolay V. Shmyrev]

>Nickolay wrote:
>> btw, why don't you using iso translation codes?
>
>Nickolay, I am not sure if I have understood you rightly.
>
>
>  The project uses the UTF-8 Unicode encoding. It is said
>  to be the way to go. It seems to work well.
>
>Davi

No, I am talking about iso-codes package. It is used in projects that require 
translation of languages (iso-646), countries and similar information. You 
should use iso-codes domain for translation of such strings instead of 
including them into your domain. This way you'll save around 300 messages 
marked for translation out of 1000 and you'll automatically get the translation 
for many languages.

http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-isocodes/

Here is for example Totem Video Player code using iso-codes:

http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/totem/trunk/src/totem-menu.c?revision=3971&view=markup

Basically you need:

        bindtextdomain ("iso_639", ISO_CODES_LOCALESDIR);
        bind_textdomain_codeset ("iso_639", "UTF-8");

and later

        return dgettext ("iso_639", lang_name);