Re: [kidsgames] Re: [Fwd: Kids Game Builder version 0.0.1]

[Jeffery Douglas Waddell <jeff@smluc.org>]

On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Mark Knox wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Doug Loss wrote:
> 
> > I agree.  The question of i18n (internationalization) is an important
> > one that we should think about going into this rather than as an
> > afterthought.  After all, we're not "market driven," so we shouldn't
> > ignore anyone out of hand.  If we do this right, it should be relatively
> > simple to provide localization info for each culture that then
> > integrates into the basic programs.
> 
> Well, content aside, internationalizing language and such is fairly easy.
> Linux provides both the X/Open 'catgets' and the Uniforum 'gettext'
> utilities for i18n using resource files. Either of these (I prefer
> gettext myself) allow for dynamic selection of language and string
> formatting (eg currency, date) at runtime, and allow for easy porting to
> new languages. KDE uses xgettext, if you want a good example.
> 

Sounds like this will make things somewhat easier for us.

> Content, at least as far as history or locale-specific information like
> lists of presidents or names of capital cities, could probably be loaded
> into similar resource files and selected at runtime as well.
> 

Hmmm, can you elabarote (like a mini howto) on how to go about doing
this....


Jeff


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