Martin Norbäck
* Translation issues What is the best way to make programs translatable? I have some files at http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d95mback/gettext/ which could be commented on.
I just want to repeat something somebody suggested, and which I thought was a really neat idea: Have string constants in programs be replaced by (Prelude.fromString "..") or similar, like numerical constants are handled already. This was suggested in order to simplify the use of PackedString, but I think it might come in handy for translation issues, too. Granted, it's not a complete printf with argument permutation and all, but at least it should be extremely simple, and, hey, it'll probably suffice for *my* uses :-) (Naturally, the idea is that Prelude.fromString can be repaced by a function that looks the string up in a translation table, instead of using the default value. Any reason this won't work?) -kzm -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants