Re: [boost] [Locale] Preview of 3rd version

Subject: Re: [boost] [Locale] Preview of 3rd version
From: Klaim (mjklaim_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-09-10 11:52:59

Hi again,

I've finished reading the documentation and I just have a question : what if
I want to inject manually the content of the translation/dictionary files in
the generator instead of using the add path functions?

Looking at the interface of boost::locale::generator class I don't see a way
to do this other than having a "real filesystem" set of dictionary files.

For example, let's say that in my project I'm using some kind of file-system
virtualization library like PhysicsFS( http://icculus.org/physfs/ ).
My translation files are zipped together (with other files) and this library
makes it easy to manipulate them without having to bother about compression.
I explicitely dont' want to use real filesystem and I can only read the
content of files using the PhyscsFS file reading function, getting raw
bytes.
In this case I need a way to inject those raw bytes inside boost::locale as
dictionary files content.

Is there already a way to do this or do you recommand another way to manage
this kind of case? Using some kind of real filesystem cache directory would
work I guess but it's far from ideal.

Joël Lamotte

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 15:46, Klaim <mjklaim_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm reading the tutorial and I noticed this line  :
>
> This technique was adopted by Boost.Locale library in order to provide
> powerful and correct localization. However instead of using standard and
> very limited standard library C++ facets it created its own facets that use
> ICU under the hood in order to make much powerful.
>
>
> As now there are several possible backends, it might be good to change this
> sentence?
>
> Joël Lamotte.
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:19, Artyom <artyomtnk_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> Announcement
>> ============
>>
>> I want to announce a preview of the third version of Boost.Locale:
>>
>> Tutorial: http://cppcms.sourceforge.net/boost_locale/html/tutorial.html
>> Reference: http://cppcms.sourceforge.net/boost_locale/html/index.html
>> Downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/cppcms/files/boost_locale/
>>
>>
>> There are following significant changes:
>>
>> - Implemented multiple localization backends:
>>  - icu - the default and recommended backend, based on ICU library
>>  - std - based on C++ standard library localizations support,
>>  - posix - based on POSIX 2008 API (newlocale, strftime_l,...)
>>  - winapi - based on Windows API functions
>> - Significantly simplified locale generation.
>> - Improvements in UTF-8 handling by ICU where possible
>> - Thread safety fixes when using ICU library
>> - Fixed std::codecvt facet support to handle UTF-16 instead of UCS-2 only.
>> - Removed support of compilers missing wide character support,
>>  gcc-3.4 on windows is not supported any more, latest gcc-4.x required
>> with
>>  support of wide streams and strings, for example gcc-4.5
>>
>>
>> Tested Platforms:
>>
>> - Compilers: GCC (3.4, 4.2, 4.3, 4.5, 4.5/c++0x), Intel 11.0, MSVC 2008,
>> SunStudio/stlport
>> - Operating Systems: Linux, FreeBSD, OpenSolaris, Windows XP, Cygwin 1.7,
>> (TODO
>> Mac OS X)
>> - ICU version: 3.6 to 4.4
>>
>>
>> Request To Site managers
>> =========================
>>
>> Please, update download link
>>
>> Review
>> ======
>>
>> Is there anybody who wants to volunteer to be a review manager?
>>
>> Artyom
>>
>>
>>
>>
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