Re: i18n, gettext support?

[Rob Browning]

Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> writes:

> What's the preferred way to internationalise GUILE code?

I don't think there is one yet.

> I'm wondering whether we should duplicate a list of all messages in C
> code for xgettext to find, and do all printing of user messages
> through a C gettext wrapper?

You might want to take a look at gnucash.  I forget how it was done
there, but it *was* done.  My recollection is that we had something
like (_ foo) on the scheme side and it handled interfacing with
gettext, but I didn't work on that myself.

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