[gmpi] Re: 3.19 Localization

I don't understand the gettext() requirement.  How can a host possibly
know how to translate all or any of the strings required for use by the
plugin?  It seems to me that if a plugin wants to translate strings it
should provide the translated strings themselves? 

-----Original Message-----
From: gmpi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gmpi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Tim Hockin
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 1:42 AM
To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gmpi] Re: 3.19 Localization

No more objections?


* GMPI plugins must be localizeable.  The host must expose the current
  language settings to plugins.

* All user-visible plugin strings must be localizeable, with the
  corollary that all identifiers that are used by the host must stay
  consistent.  For example, a parameter might have the name 'FOO' which
is
  constant, and a display name, "Foo Frequency" which is localizable.

* GMPI must provide a simple string encoding and translation interface,
  similar to gettext(), which plugins can rely on to get automatic
  translation of their strings.

More:
  The simplest localization that a plugin can do is to display strings
in
  different languages.  GMPI should make this really trivial for
plugins.
  By providing a simple string lookup system, plugins can rely entirely
on
  GMPI to do the lookups of localized strings.  Further, if the
translated
  strings are stored in a standardized format in a standardized place,
  then the host can also easilty translate strings for the plugin.

  Example:  Assume that the strings for a plugin with ID 'FOO' are
stored
  in a file in the same directory as the shared object for FOO.  English
  strings are stored in FOO-en.strings, French strings in
FOO-fr.strings,
  and Japanese strings in FOO-jp.strings.  The host knows that the
current
  user has selected French for the locale.  The host can automatically
  lookup strings in FOO-fr.strings.

  This is similar to how the gettext() API works.

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