Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms

From	Mel Wilson <mwilson@the-wire.com>
Newsgroups	comp.arch.embedded
Subject	Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms
Date	2017-09-08 17:33 +0000
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On Fri, 08 Sep 2017 10:43:48 -0400, Richard Damon wrote:
> On 9/5/17 3:30 AM, pozz wrote:

>> The _() function will search the translated string based on the current
>> language. If he can't find, it could return the first translation
>> (english).
>> 
>> This approach has some disadvantages. It's difficult to exclude one
>> language from the build. If the languages are more than a couple, the
>> strings will be very long. The order of the translations (first
>> english, than italian, ...) is important and you have to remember it
>> for every string.
>> 
>> 
>> What approach do you use?
> 
> If you really want to look by string, then your _ function just needs to
> search the translation table for that value, and then return the string
> desired translation instead of passing in the index. The lookup will
> take a bit of time, but not that long given your number of strings, and
> if you sort the strings by the base translation, you could binary search
> to find it.

This may have been said already (who can tell, here), but the gettext 
convention 
_("Some string that has to be translated")

can make it easy for some preprocessors of your own to pick out these 
strings, manage a database of translations, and substitute  the 
translations into individual builds for each language.  The '_' can just 
be a syntactic marker -- doesn't need to be a callable function at all.

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Multi-language support on embedded plarforms pozz <pozzugno@gmail.com> - 2017-09-05 09:30 +0200
  Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-09-05 10:43 +0200
    Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-09-05 09:56 -0500
      Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2017-09-06 07:50 +1200
        Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-09-05 17:11 -0500
          Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-09-05 15:17 -0700
            Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-09-05 19:19 -0500
              Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2017-09-09 12:37 +0000
                Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-09-09 16:16 -0500
                Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2017-09-15 17:17 +0000
          Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms Allan Herriman <allanherriman@hotmail.com> - 2017-09-06 11:27 +0000
  Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms Paul <paul@pcserviceselectronics.co.uk> - 2017-09-05 10:04 +0100
    Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms Theo Markettos <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2017-09-06 10:55 +0100
  Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> - 2017-09-05 17:00 -0400
  Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-09-07 10:55 -0700
    Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-09-07 18:41 +0000
    Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms pozz <pozzugno@gmail.com> - 2017-09-08 11:33 +0200
      Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-09-08 11:32 +0100
        Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-09-08 13:37 +0200
          Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-09-08 14:48 +0100
            Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-09-08 16:45 +0200
  Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2017-09-08 10:43 -0400
    Re: Multi-language support on embedded plarforms Mel Wilson <mwilson@the-wire.com> - 2017-09-08 17:33 +0000

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