Re: Windows Internationalization

[Luca Marzolla]

Tim Van Holder ha scritto:
> Luca wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I have written a compiler for a pascal-like language, using flex and 
> > bison.
> > The compiler is built under Windows using Visual Studio and works 
> > very well, however how can I provide an internationalization?
> > I need to translate syntax error messages generated by bison's parser 
> > in another language, different from English.
> >
> > Thanx in advance.
>
> As part of the bison package, there is a "bison-runtime" gettext domain.
> This provides the messages shown by bison-generated code at runtime.
> If
>  a) you provide a version of this catalog for the language you need, and
>  b) you include the gettext library in your application the "normal"
>     way, and
>  b) set the LANGUAGE environment variable to that language (e.g. "it"
>     for Italian) before running your executable
> then your compiler should automatically use those translations. This 
> requires that the bison-runtime catalogs be installed (they would be 
> as part of a bison installation, but I'm not quite sure how to set up 
> your own configury to include & distribute them).
> Ideally, you would then also set up a message catalog for all other 
> messages you yourself produce in your compiler.
> Note that I don't think flex 2.5.4a or earlier provided i18n for its 
> runtime messages; the newer versions might.
>
> For a list of languages already supported by bison-runtime, see here:
>   http://translationproject.org/domain/bison-runtime.html
> If you want to improve upon translations, or provide a new one for a 
> language not already supported, see
>   http://translationproject.org/html/translators.html
> for how to join a translation team and start translating.
>
>
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Thank you for your reply, only in the last days I could try what you 
suggested.
I get a translated string, with the following calls

   setlocale(LC_ALL,"");
   bindtextdomain("bison-runtime","C:\\cygwin\\usr\\share\\locale");

but I still have some problems.

  1. The args in the string are wrong "errore di sintassi, atteso %2$s
     o %3$s e non %1$s". This is really tricky, "%1$s" isn't a right arg.
  2. I cant debug the parser, because when I set yydebug to a
     nonzerovalue I got a crash in YYDPRINTF macro.
  3. How to set a different language? setlocale(LC_ALL,"de"); seems to
     have no effect, messages still remain in Italian.

Take in account I'm using visual studio and I specified a different 
token name (%token ID "IDENTIFIER"), moreover the compiler is inside a DLL.

Thanks once again for your help.