On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 11:47:36AM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: > On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 08:10:10PM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: > > no, don't re-invent the wheel. This all make gettext. We don't need > > patch apt, dpkg, other toold this way. > > > > We must only use a old, nice and tested tool: gettext. > > Nice, I wasn't aware it solves the encoding problem as well!
I don't check it, but the info page assert this: ... `gettext' not only looks up a translation in a message catalog. It also converts the translation on the fly to the desired output character set. This is useful if the user is working in a different character set than the translator who created the message catalog, because it avoids distributing variants of message catalogs which differ only in the character set. ... > The only place where it isn't 100% suited for our purposes is the > Descriptions-XX.po, because the English text is duplicated. Would it See the last proposal, we can bypass this problem. With a Descriptions-XX file (without the .po and without the english description) we can reduce the download size. But we must make a work on the client side and we use the size on the client all the time. > make sense to hack gettext to make it allow checksums instead of the > English descriptions? Maybe. But we can use gettext now. Make a generall improvement to gettext to use optinal md5sum-.mo files. Gettext support a version number in the .mo file also. With this improvement all programs can use this feature. Gruss Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Linux Developer http://www.debian.org PGP: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux "Ein Computer ist nunmal ein Hochgeschwindigkeitstrottel." -- Jens Dittmar in de.comp.os.unix.linux.newusers
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