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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <jacob@jacob-sparre.dk>
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Subject: Re: gettext for Ada
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 20:28:48 +0100
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Shark8  <onewingedshark@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sunday, November 19, 2017 at 1:40:55 PM UTC-7, Victor Porton wrote:
>> Where can I get a gettext bindings for Ada?

Included in GtkAda IIRC.

> I would actually advise against gettext usage, in general

I would actually advise in favour of GNU Gettext - or at least it's
mechanism:

+ The developer can write UI strings which make sense.
+ Translations can be distributed separately from the executables.

I'm working on a project where we're going to handle translations
similarly to how GNU Gettext does it.  (We can't use GNU Gettext
directly, since we're required to use a database as the translation
storage.)

The problem with GNU Gettext - and C printf() - is that you lose the
compile-time checking that formatting fields match the data passed.

Greetings,

Jacob
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