Hi Vivien! I'm also interested in Hoot for potential web frontend in Scheme.
Back to your case, as I understand, Hoot reused part of Guile code, include i18n. Maybe not complete yet, but it contains gettext, and G_ is its short hand. I saw you implemented a simple G_ macro, is there any reason that it can't meet your requirements? Or you just happend to not know it exited in Hoot? Best regards. Best regards. On Sat, Dec 21, 2024, 18:31 Vivien Kraus <viv...@planete-kraus.eu> wrote: > Dear Guile users, > > I am very excited about Hoot, but there is one aspect I was not > satisfied with: internationalization. Since it is usually done with > gettext, it requires a C library at run-time. Hoot programs can’t > unfortunately use that. > > With your help, I managed to understand how I could rewrite code with > macros. > > Thanks to this knowledge, I was able to create a small library for > static and pure Scheme internationalization. > > It works like this > (https://labo.planete-kraus.eu/guile-static-i18n.git/tree/example.scm): > > (define-module (example) > #:use-module (static-i18n) > #:declarative? #t > #:export (main)) > > ;; We have to tell where the pot file lives at expansion time. > (eval-when (expand) > (project-pot-file > (string-append (dirname (current-filename)) "/example.pot")) > (project-po-directory > (string-append (dirname (current-filename)) "/example-po"))) > > ;; collect-strings updates a PO template file, regenerates PO files, > ;; and use them to provide translations for any calls to G_. > (collect-strings > ;; This is defined at the top-level. > (define (main args) > ;; current-locale-order is parameterized by a list of locale names > ;; to try in order. > (parameterize ((current-locale-order '("de" "fr" "en"))) > ;; Note how you can use (G_ context message) to register a new > ;; record, without having to call xgettext. > (format #t (G_ "GREETING" "Hello, world!~%"))))) > > (main (command-line)) > > Once expanded, every call to G_ will have all possible translations > compiled in, and the correct one will be chosen according to a list of > preference for the user (a run-time Guile parameter). > > The big downside is, it doesn’t support plurals. However, I believe it > can be useful! > > https://labo.planete-kraus.eu/guile-static-i18n.git > > Best regards, > > Vivien > >
