AW: OOC Library and Locales

["Teulings, Tim" <Tim.Teulings@materna.de>]

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Hallo!

> I would like to add that the plain text files used by these modules
> are not sufficient, especially when we get into Unicode stuff.  A
> more elaborate soluation would be best built upon XML, which has
> excellent support for Unicode.  Also, with language specific data
> in XML documents, we would be using an established technology for
> structured documents, instead of ASCII files with an arbitrary,
> home-grown syntax.  

The Amiga had a rather nice way for handling localized strings.
Perhaps one can
steal some ideas (of course it had no Unicode support). Using XML is
a nice
idea, since it is a rather portable format and allows other people
(Oberon OSs)
to use the localisation routines, too. However that means that your
XML parser must
be part of the library and likely must as a result be under LGPL.

- -- 
Gruß...
       Tim.



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