[haiku-development] Re: printf-convention BString filler
- From: pulkomandy <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:01:02 +0100
> Since the << operator is already used in BString, the suggested
> BStringBuilder API cannot be used here, but I would personally prefer
> methods over the << operator anyway.
> Other than that, I think it makes sense to have two different APIs for
> that, even though I wouldn't mind if both of them end up in BString
> eventually.
BStringBuilder would be a different class, like ostringstream is in plain
C++.
>
> Other than that, as Ingo pointed out on the original thread
> (//www.freelists.org/post/haiku/Proposals-for-the-LocaleKit,
> 44), we still need a dedicated solution for numbering.
> It might be a good idea to look at the solutions in Qt, and Java for
> this. The latter uses a choice formatter that the translator specified
> similar to what Ingo suggested:
> {1,choice,0#zero,1#one,2#many}
> See
>
http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/text/MessageFormat.html
... which uses ICU as a backend. Something we may use too :) (IIRC
somewhere around hte PluralFormat class.)
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