Re: IRC client for Emacs

[Alex Schroeder]

Karl Eichwalder <address@hidden> writes:

> Noah Friedman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I don't know if ERC has been internationalized, but zenirc has a
>> a few localization catalogs already.
>
> Can it serve as an example to internationalized other parts of Emacs,
> too?

Maybe for applications within Emacs.  In erc.el there is code like
this:

(defun erc-make-message-variable-name (catalog entry)
  (intern (concat "erc-message-"
                  (symbol-name catalog) "-" (symbol-name entry))))

(defun erc-define-catalog-entry (catalog entry format-spec)
  (set (erc-make-message-variable-name catalog entry)
       format-spec))

(defun erc-define-catalog (catalog entries)
  (dolist (entry entries)
    (erc-define-catalog-entry catalog (car entry) (cdr entry))))

(erc-define-catalog
 'english
 '((bad-ping-response . "Unexpected PING response from %n (time %t)")
   (bad-syntax . "Bad syntax")
   (cannot-find-file . "Cannot find file %f")
   (cannot-read-file . "Cannot read file %f")
   (connect . "Connecting to %S:%p... ")

etc.

Alex.