Re: [Chicken-users] i18n for Scheme programs?

[Thomas Chust]

Am 07.10.2005, 06:39 Uhr, schrieb Alejandro Forero Cuervo  
<address@hidden>:

> [...]
> Well, what I was thinking was of having the Scheme programmer write
>
>   (_ "foo")
>
> instead of
>
>   "foo".
>
> Here, _ would be a wrapper to gettext(3), which receives "foo" and
> returns the translated string.  So it would be activated by the
> programmer on a string-by-string basis.
> [...]

Hello,

the GNU internationalization utilities support guile with exactly the  
proposed syntax -- so it shouldn't really be a problem to get them working  
with CHICKEN. Probably one would just need a wrapper for all the C  
procedures from the internationalization library.

cu,
Thomas