Re: [Discuss-gnustep] Localization

[Jonathan Gapen]

On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Nicola Pero wrote:
> > You then use NSBundles localizedStringForKey:value:table: method to fetch 
> > the
> > appropriate localized version for each string you want to localize.
> 
> I don't know much about this - but - are there any plans for some simpler
> GNUstep extension/front-end to this ?

    There's already an easy way to do it in OpenStep; use the macro
NSLocalizedString().  This macro takes two string arguments, first the
string as used by the application (e.g. "Quit"), and second a description
of it (e.g. "main menu quit item").  The macro simply returns the first
argument if it can't load a localized version of the string, so it's easy
to add localization support to an app by simply replacing all occurances
of a constant string with this macro instead.
    I had the idea a while back of creating a command-line tool that would
scan your sources for occurances of this macro, and then create a template
Localizable.strings file to hand off to your translators.  Of course,
Apple beat me too it, as I noticed in their release notes that they have
added just such a tool to MacOS X.

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