Jeff Epler wrote:
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 01:18:57PM -0800, Neil Schemenauer wrote:
Jeff Epler wrote:
But how do you internationalize your program once you use $-subs?
So don't use them. What's the problem?
The problem is when I have to internationalize a program some schmuck wrote using $-subs throughout.
I think you go through and remove the "$" signs (probably at the same time you are removing "_") and use a runtime function to do the translation (probably the same function doing the interpolation). Then you take on the responsibility yourself for making sure that the original string is a constant (not a user-supplied variable) and that the replacement strings come from somewhere secure. So: a = $"Hello there $name" becomes: a = _("Hello there $name") I think Barry's gettext already does that or something, doesn't it? Paul Prescod