From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2009-02-14T02:27:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Recommendations for localization on Ruby 1.9?

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Suraj Kurapati <snk@gna.org> wrote:
> 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

No, I mean libraries for handling translation files within an application.

>> 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.

Thanks for sharing.  I really want to show something that doesn't
ignore character encoding if possible, but I could look into this if
there aren't better options.

-greg

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