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diff --git a/lib/gettext/README b/lib/gettext/README index c7525e29c..bca4f916d 100644 --- a/lib/gettext/README +++ b/lib/gettext/README @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ -PHP-gettext 1.0 +PHP-gettext 1.0 (https://launchpad.net/php-gettext) -Copyright 2003, 2006 -- Danilo "angry with PHP[1]" Segan +Copyright 2003, 2006, 2009 -- Danilo "angry with PHP[1]" Segan Licensed under GPLv2 (or any later version, see COPYING) -[1] PHP is actually cyrillic, and translates roughly to +[1] PHP is actually cyrillic, and translates roughly to "works-doesn't-work" (UTF-8: Ради-Не-Ради) @@ -50,36 +50,16 @@ Features file data, I used imaginary abstract class StreamReader to do all the input (check streams.php). For your convenience, I've already provided two classes for reading files: FileReader and - StringReader (CachedFileReader is a combination of the two: it - loads entire file contents into a string, and then works on that). - See example below for usage. You can for instance use StringReader - when you read in data from a database, or you can create your own - derivative of StreamReader for anything you like. - + StringReader (CachedFileReader is a combination of the two: it + loads entire file contents into a string, and then works on that). + See example below for usage. You can for instance use StringReader + when you read in data from a database, or you can create your own + derivative of StreamReader for anything you like. -Bugs - - Plural-forms field in MO header (translation for empty string, - i.e. "") is treated according to PHP syntactic rules (it's - eval()ed). Since these should actually follow C syntax, there are - some problems. - For instance, I'm used to using this: - Plural-Forms: nplurals=3; plural=n%10==1 && n%100!=11 ? 0 : \ - n%10>=2 && n%10<=4 && (n%100<10 || n%100>=20) ? 1 : 2; - but it fails with PHP (it sets $plural=2 instead of 0 for $n==1). - - The fix is usually simple, but I'm lazy to go into the details of - PHP operator precedence, and maybe try to fix it. In here, I had - to put everything after the first ':' in parenthesis: - Plural-Forms: nplurals=3; plural=n%10==1 && n%100!=11 ? 0 : \ - (n%10>=2 && n%10<=4 && (n%100<10 || n%100>=20) ? 1 : 2); - That works, and I'm satisfied. +Bugs - Besides this one, there are probably a bunch of other bugs, since - I hate PHP (did I mention it already? no? strange), and don't - know it very well. So, feel free to fix any of those and report - them back to me at <[email protected]>. + Report them on https://bugs.launchpad.net/php-gettext Usage @@ -94,19 +74,19 @@ Usage Then, use that as a parameter to gettext_reader constructor: $wohoo = new gettext_reader($streamer); - If you want to disable pre-loading of entire message catalog in - memory (if, for example, you have a multi-thousand message catalog - which you'll use only occasionally), use "false" for second + If you want to disable pre-loading of entire message catalog in + memory (if, for example, you have a multi-thousand message catalog + which you'll use only occasionally), use "false" for second parameter to gettext_reader constructor: $wohoo = new gettext_reader($streamer, false); From now on, you have all the benefits of gettext data at your - disposal, so may run: + disposal, so may run: print $wohoo->translate("This is a test"); print $wohoo->ngettext("%d bird", "%d birds", $birds); You might need to pass parameter "-k" to xgettext to make it - extract all the strings. In above example, try with + extract all the strings. In above example, try with xgettext -ktranslate -kngettext:1,2 file.php what should create messages.po which contains two messages for translation. @@ -118,8 +98,8 @@ Usage Usage with gettext.inc (standard gettext interfaces emulation) - Check example in examples/pig_dropin.php, basically you include - gettext.inc and use all the standard gettext interfaces as + Check example in examples/pig_dropin.php, basically you include + gettext.inc and use all the standard gettext interfaces as documented on: http://www.php.net/gettext @@ -137,20 +117,12 @@ Example There is also simple "update" script that can be used to generate POT file and to update the translation using msgmerge. -Interesting TODO: +TODO: - o Try to parse "plural-forms" header field, and to follow C syntax - rules. This won't be easy. + o Improve speed to be even more comparable to the native gettext + implementation. -Boring TODO: - - o Learn PHP and fix bugs, slowness and other stuff resulting from - my lack of knowledge (but *maybe*, it's not my knowledge that is - bad, but PHP itself ;-). - - (This is mostly done thanks to Nico Kaiser.) - - o Try to use hash tables in MO files: with pre-loading, would it + o Try to use hash tables in MO files: with pre-loading, would it be useful at all? Never-asked-questions: @@ -160,7 +132,7 @@ Never-asked-questions: Well, it's quite simple. I consider that the first released thing should be labeled "version 1" (first, right?). Zero is there to - indicate that there's zero improvement and/or change compared to + indicate that there's zero improvement and/or change compared to "version 1". I plan to use version numbers 1.0.* for small bugfixes, and to @@ -173,7 +145,7 @@ Never-asked-questions: Mozart's 40th Symphony (there is one like that, right?). o Can I...? - + Yes, you can. This is free software (as in freedom, free speech), and you might do whatever you wish with it, provided you do not limit freedom of others (GPL). |