Re: internationalization

Dumas Patrice <[email protected]> Mon, 8 Sep 2003 17:01:01 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.texi2html.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I respond to myself to say 2 things.

First thanks to Adrian and Derek, you gave me the ideas about using 
Data::Dumper to ease the automatic updating of translation files.

Now there is something I forgot, it is to explain why I think we shouldn't
use gettext for translation of strings in document generation. First the 
scheme I made was greatly influenced by gettext. But I think that gettext
is better suited for translation of messages depending on the locale defined
when the program is run. This is not our case. We want to change the 
outputted html independantly of the locales, but with @documentlanguage or
-lang. Thus we don't need something very sophisticated.

I think that we still could use gettext to translate the messages coming
from texi2html, but for document strings I think that the scheme I did
is enough.

Pat