From: Alex Fenton <alex@...>
Date: 2009-02-14T13:58:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Recommendations for localization on Ruby 1.9?

Gregory Brown wrote:
> 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 by "handling" translation files you mean marking translatable strings 
and having them replaced when an application runs, then ruby-gettext 
works fine for me with 1.9. I use it with a wxRuby app, but the 
documentation suggests it can also be used for Rails.

http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-gettext.html

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