[fxruby-users] i18n messages

[Michel Demazure]

Paul,

 

First I have a labels.yaml file looking like

 

## YAML 

---

fr:

  :entry: 'Marche/Arrêt'

  :pages: 'Pages'

  <more>

en:

  :entry: 'GO/STOP'

  :pages: 'Pages'

  <more>

 

I load it with

 

labels = nil

File.open(this_file,“r:utf-8”){ |f| labels = YAML.load(f) }

 

I fix the language

 

@strings = labels[“fr”]

 

Then I use for instance FXLabel(@strings[:entry] ….)

 

Actually, the chosen language also comes from a user config file (another YAML file)

 

@strings = labels[config[“language”]]

 

Two comments on YAML.

 

First, you always can choose between Strings and Symbols for keys and values. As you see, I mixed Symbols for labels and Strings for the language key. It looks strange. The reason is that *I* write the label file and Symbols are neater and more rubyesque, but *the user* has to write his config file and is seems simpler to have him write

 

language: en

 

than

 

language: :en

 

or even

 

:language: :en

 

The second remark is a small trick. I always forget the precise syntax of a YAML file. So I open irb, type for instance

{ a => { :b => c}}.to_yaml and look.

 

By the way, you may have to ‘require ‘yaml’’.

 

A last word. I have been using FXRuby for more than two years. One thing to remember : when after a change, suddenly nothing appears on the screen when you start your app, it means you forgot to ‘create’ something (font.create, canvas.create, image.create …).

 

I hope this helps. 

Michel

 

De : fxruby-users-bounces at rubyforge.org [mailto:fxruby-users-bounces at rubyforge.org] De la part de Paul Carvalho
Envoyé : mercredi 28 avril 2010 20:58
À : fxruby-users at rubyforge.org
Objet : Re: [fxruby-users] i18n messages

 

Hello Michel, I don't want to bother with the unicode table codes.  I just followed the example from the unicode.rb script (from Ruby 1.8) and since it worked I moved on.  I'm still working on getting the main guts of the app working, so i haven't had a chance to go back to the strings and find a better way of doing it.

 

I have taken a break from working on my app for a few weeks now.  I am interested in your yaml solution. Could you please send me some simple examples - like the "hello world" one I sent in my previous post?

 

That would be great.  I'd like to avoid using the unicode character codes in my strings file if I can.

 

Thanks.  Cheers!  Paul.

 

(P.S., Sorry Reginaldo that I didn't understand your problem correctly.)

 

On 28 April 2010 03:13, Michel Demazure wrote:

Reginaldo, I do the same thing Paul does, slightly differently. I have a yaml file with the different languages describing a two-levels hash :

language => {name => string}

Then I read the file, build @strings = hash[language], and then use @strings[name].

Paul, I always work in ruby 1.9 and UTF8 (code file and data files), and my files contain accented letters of all kinds. Why do you need bother with U+… ?

Michel  Demazure

 

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