From: Suraj Kurapati <snk@...>
Date: 2009-02-14T02:02:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Recommendations for localization on Ruby 1.9?

Gregory Brown wrote:
> Although I have some experience with the m17n framework in Ruby 1.9, I
> don't know a lot about localization tools, which is the other side of
> the internationalization coin.

What do you mean by localization tools?  GUIs or text editor plugins 
that make it easy to edit GNU gettext .po translation files?  There's 
lots of those on http://freshmeat.net

> If there aren't good tools out there for this already and you have
> a hand rolled solution, I'd be happy to look at that too.

I have[1] a very simple hand-rolled solution (a Hash with a 
Kernel#sprintf interface) which ignores character encoding at the moment 
because I've been relying on YAML to detect & handle the encoding 
issues---so far it works great for Unicode and the latin ISO charsets.

I've used this solution successfully in two projects; one of them for 
~1.5 years.  Someday I'll factor in Ruby 1.9's character encoding 
abilities, but that may not be necessary if YAML beats me to it. :-)

[1]: http://snk.tuxfamily.org/lib/inochi/#Translate-your-project
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