Re: I18N(_Currency)

On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 15:06, Wolfram Kriesing wrote: > now the I18N does also handle localization for > - DateTime > - Number > - Currency > > it would be great if some langauge packages could be added by those > who speak the langauges, that are still missing or incomplete. > the files that need to be adapted are in I18N/Common > it's a very simple structure :-) > > > > one problem i got > there are different representation for those special currency signs, > such as Euro, Yen, etc. now the Currency-class currently works with > the HTML representation of those, such as € > What do i.e. GTK-appl's need, unicode? > Most probably we need to change something here, i.e. by like setting a > 'mode' for the currency which could be smthg like: > new I18N_Currency( 'de_DE' , I18N_[CURRENCY_]MODE_HTML ); > or > new I18N_Currency( 'de_DE' , I18N_[CURRENCY_]MODE_UNICODE ); > > any other ideas? or am i thinking to complicated? Just to help you break it down into something less obtuse than "mode": What you are trying to do here is to let the user choose a way of encoding text, as HTML entities, UTF-8 or maybe just ISO-8859-15. I don't know what Gtk needs, but being able to choose encoding is a must when you are dealing with i18n after all. What about introducing some new constants: I18N_ENCODING_HTML_ENT I18N_ENCODING_UTF_8 I18N_ENCODING_SHIFT_JIS I18N_ENCODING_EUC_KR I18N_ENCODING_ISO_8859_1 I18N_ENCODING_ISO_8859_15 ...and then use encoding as a parameter/option to all I18N constructors, or maybe have a way of setting a "global default" with I18N::setDefaultEncoding(). - Stig