[Cuis-dev] Locale Plugin and Gettext package

[Philip Bernhart]

Hi Nicola,

btw. https://github.com/Phantasus/Cuis-Smalltalk-Postgres

Cheers,
Philip

Nicola Mingotti via Cuis-dev <cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> writes:

> hi hilaire,
>
> sorry for brute typing, i am in fair, writing from phone.
>
> it seems a useful infrastructure package, i could give you an hand.
>
> but, for the moment i have more urgent holes to cover. i have almost done a
> port of an old Squeak Postgres package. and it it would be great if i could
> extend Regex to manage non greedy patterns, on this at the moment i am
> stuck.
>
> so, i can help you but not in short time, say, not before new year.
>
> bye
> nicola
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 11:51 AM Hilaire Fernandes via Cuis-dev <
> cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> A while ago, more than 10 years. I ported to Pharo the original
>> Gettext[1] package developed by the Etoys team[2], to use it with DrGeo.
>> Gettext is a system to translate the string in an image. It is
>> originally a C library. There is then a whole ecosystem to manage the
>> translation of the application[3]. The translations are done per domain
>> correlated with class category in Smalltalk. So you can manage
>> translation with different .po files per class category. It is a very
>> valuable addition when you are targeting end user, out of the English
>> sphere.
>>
>> To work it requires the LocalePlugin to be used in the Smalltalk system,
>> to detect which locale to use and which translation file to use.
>>
>> The gettext package in the Pharo community has continued to evolve with
>> fixes[2]. It is used by people developing end user web application. The
>> Squeak community seems to have completely forgotten about it. So a port
>> to Cuis should be done from the Pharo version found in SmalltalkHub or GIT.
>>
>> This is a port I will have to do for DrGeo. Other people interested to
>> join in the effort?
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Hilaire
>>
>> [1 ] https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/
>>
>> [2] http://smalltalkhub.com/
>>
>> [3] https://translations.launchpad.net/drgeo
>>
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