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A report from OSCON 2007

Posted Aug 3, 2007 17:56 UTC (Fri) by ajross (subscriber, #4563)
In reply to: A report from OSCON 2007 by tzafrir
Parent article: A report from OSCON 2007

strace -eopen cat /dev/null

It reads the (non-existent) locale files even when no output is generated.

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Posted Aug 4, 2007 12:10 UTC (Sat) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]

right, so you want to complicate the code of every program:

if(open failed) {
get_translations();
error message
}

print_help_message(){
get_translations();
help message
}

A report from OSCON 2007

Posted Aug 4, 2007 20:36 UTC (Sat) by madscientist (subscriber, #16861) [Link]

That's not required. Every time a program needs to translate a message, it calls a function to do the translation. It should not be too difficult to modify the code for "lazy evaluation", where the locale catalog is not set up until the first time a message needs to be translated, and hide this inside the i18n libraries.