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From: dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner)
Subject: I18N gettext style
Date: 2000/03/04
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Date: 2000-03-04T00:00:00+00:00
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gettext is a C library that does message translation - i.e.

	puts (N("Hi!"));
	
will replace Hi with whatever's appropriate for the locale, provided the 
message catalog has it. That's simple enough to interface/rewrite for Ada. 
But it's also used in stuff like

	printf (N("Hi! There are %d widgets!"), I);
	
where in the %d will get moved to where ever the number needs to be in the 
translated message. 

Unfortunetly,
	Ada.Text_IO.Put (N("Hi! There are ") && To_String(I) && N("widgets!"));
won't put I in the proper position in the translated message for some
languages. What's the easiest way to do this type of thing for Ada?

-- 
David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org
Only a nerd would worry about wrong parentheses with
square brackets. But that's what mathematicians are.
   -- Dr. Burchard, math professor at OSU