Ada and Internationalization

["Michael Rohan" <mrohan@ACM.ORG>]

Hi Folks,

I've checked Google and have not been able to find anything in Ada out
there for internationalized code.  There's support for Wide_Character
and Wide_Wide_Character but there doesn't seem to be libraries for
message strings.  Before starting down the path of writing from
scratch, wanted to check.

If nothing is available, I was considering taking Java .properties
files, somehow "compiling" them into an Ada package and implementing
something akin to Java's MessageFormat:

   Arguments : Message_Arguments;
   ...
   Arguments.Append ("a string");
   Arguments.Append (10);
   Arguments.Append (Pi);
   Put_Line (Message_Format ("facility", "msg001", Arguments));

Take care,
Michael.