[MPlayer-dev-eng] Translations again (was: Re: [PATCH] multi language part 2/2)

[Uoti Urpala]

On Sun, 2008-12-14 at 09:40 +0100, Ötvös Attila wrote:
> Ezzel a dátummal: Saturday 13 December 2008 23:28:17 Uoti Urpala ezt írta:
> 
> Hi Uoti Urpala!
> 
> > On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 15:10 +0100, Ötvös Attila wrote:
> > > This patch support multi language in 1 binary file.
> >
> > I thought about language support again and I don't think this is a
> > viable approach. The system should at be compatible with the gettext
> > translator tools at least.
> 
> My localize with gettext (libintl) patch (2006-11-29):
> 
> http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20061129.221723.d317976b.en.html

The basic API implementation in that is no usable IMO. It always sets
all locale categories including LC_CTYPE, and does not even ensure that
the translated strings are in UTF-8 (like MPlayer's internal strings
should be). mp_msg() always tries to translate its first argument and
there is no alternative to avoid that. I think it fails at implementing
parts 1 and 2 listed in my earlier message (gettext functionality and
presenting an API to the rest of MPlayer). Maybe it has a few changes
that could be used for part 4 (changing files to make individual strings
translatable).