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[REBOL] Re: Internationalization appeal

From: ingo:2b1 at: 18-May-2002 21:55

Hi Gabriele, Sunanda, Gabriele Santilli wrote:
> Hi SunandaDH, > > On Thursday, May 16, 2002, 6:32:54 PM, you wrote: > > Sac> 1. Some feedback on the requirements. Please take a look at the sample > Sac> functions below and tell me what is missing so it can work for your > Sac> country/locale. > > Just my 2 cents: what about handling it like AmigaOS > locale.library does? You first select the country and the > language, and then use the functions. This way you don't need to > have all the combinations loaded, but can simply store the > required info in external files (i.e. %locale/italy.country and > %locale/italian.language), which can easily be replaced/added > without modification of the code. It looks much simpler this way > to me.
Yup, this would make it _much_ easier to add new languages, I think. Furthermore it might be an idea to add a field 'lang to the system/user object, and use this to determine the language settings. I have an experimental implementation to work with different language strings on the reb under h-o-h/core/languages . Maybe something like this should be part of the system, too. Kind regards, Ingo