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From: James Dennett <jdennett@cox.net>
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Subject: Re: Ada and Internationalization
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Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 07:53:36 -0700
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Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On 30 May 2006 16:12:35 -0700, Michael Rohan wrote:
> 
>> 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));
> 
> I don't see how this is related to internationalization. It looks like 
> stream communication (see S"Output attribute) or string formatting. In 
> either case you convert data to/from stream/string.

Formatting of strings for human readers needs to produce
output that is correctly localized, hence is always an
issue in an internationalized program, non?

-- James