Re: gettext (was: Re: Re: Debian Packages of 2.2.1)

On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 07:35:06PM +0000, corvid wrote:
> Jorge wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 07:19:37PM +0000, corvid wrote:
> > > Jorge wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 08:11:16PM +0200, SZERVÁC Attila wrote:
> > > > > Thx for work, pls gettextize (or i14e ;-)) Dillo - thx a lot!
> > > > 
> > > >   That'd be good to have...
> > > 
> > > This intrigues me; I'll look into this unless someone who already knows
> > > their way around gettext wants to volunteer...?
> > 
> >   AFAIR, the main issue here is handling resizes.
> 
> Can you elaborate? What I know about gettext is just about exactly
> zilch, being an English speaker and all...

  In a nutshell, you can wrap the strings in the code:

  "Open" becomes _("open") and gettext does the job of providing
the closest string given local settings [1].

  On most toolkits widget resize is automatic, but with FLTK there's
a need to articulate the resize "by hand". Imagine we have our "tools"
button, and we use gettext with a spanish local:

    .-----.
        C
       /
      
     Tools
    '-----'

  "Tools" becomes "Herramientas", what happens with out button?

    .-----.
        C
       /
      
     Herra
    '-----'

  or

    .------------.
           C
          /
      
     Herramientas
    '------------'


  (FWIW, I don't know the answer).



[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettext

-- 
  Cheers
  Jorge.-