[gmpi] Re: 3.19 Localization
- From: Tim Hockin <thockin@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 22:42:21 -0700
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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