3 May
2006
3 May
'06
7:11 p.m.
How hard would that be to have a "source" file including things like key=value for the localizable strings:
The way this is done in, say, Cocoa is to have a localisation file containing format strings:
English: "what is ~S times ~S?" Greeble: "~S dfsiiikkkkkk ~S!"
and bind the format strings at runtime after loading the appropriate file.
Better still is to allow the order of arguments to change. I can't remember how Cocoa gets around this, but I'm sure it does.
The key is to parameterise the output, and make all output conditional on the language. FORMAT is actually a reasonable way to do this, as one can always jump around in the input.
-R