[quiz] [QUIZ #1] Solution by Stuart Sierra

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

On 2006/05/04, at 2:11, Richard Newman wrote:

>> How hard would that be to have a "source" file including things  
>> like key=value for the localizable strings:
>
> The way this is done in, say, Cocoa is to have a localisation file  
> containing format strings:

Well, I don't think thinking in terms of platform specific methods  
would do the trick.

Just making sure that there is a part of the code that is easily  
understandable as localizable would do I suppose.

When I write small scripts for my work, I always take care to  
separate string values from the code so that eventually, anyone could  
just take the code, identify the localizable strings, translate them  
and run the script natively.

Also, in the case of Lisp, it looks like there is not "one" way to  
prepare an app for localization, but that also means that not a lot  
of people actually have localization issues in mind (by default).  
They sometimes have to consider the l10n issue, and it may be easier  
to deal with that in Lisp than in any other language, but it then  
looks like ad-hoc measures rather that strategies from the ground up.

Regards,
Jean-Christophe