> > > > Interesting. Now I know why gettext is slow with windows. It is > environment setting that takes all the time. > > This is because of the horrible API of gettext. We can need several > different languages at the same time, and we cannot pass that as a > parameter. Moreover, if we leave these environment variables as set, they > will influence the behavior of the external processes that we run. > > I am more and more tempted at use some C++ .mo file reader like > this > > https://github.com/laurent22/**simple-gettext<https://github.com/laurent22/simple-gettext> > > This library amounts to less that 1000 lines of code AFAICS. We can afford > to import it in our code and customize it to our needs. I just have to find > a clear statement about license. >
If needed, we can write it ourselves probably as well. Would be a nice exercise for the reader ;). Vincent
