Re: Translating to Chinese, Spanish and Japanese (and more)

[pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)]

On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 01:26:04PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Simple XML might be a better candidate for a DSL.  Translators would get
> a string like “<link>Installation instructions</link>.” and give us back
> a translated string such as “<link>安装说明</link>。” On the haunt side
> we would have a procedure that parses the XML to SXML and we could
> operate on the S-expression.  So instead of this:
> 

Ah, that is what you mean by XML.  I used "link|Installation
instructions" for that, but yes, maybe XML is easier to understand /
more familiar for translators.

I believe this Gettext support should be separate from Haunt so it can
be reused e.g. for Web servers written in Guile.

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