i18n library for slate

[Brian T. Rice]

Oops, I forgot to inform the list. The files are now available in CVS 
under src/i18n/ with the tests as tests/i18n.slate. I've also just 
updated the current tarball, since we are fairly stable now.

Brian T. Rice wrote:

> Fixes to make the tests work are now included at:
> 
> http://slate.tunes.org/downloads/contrib/slate-i18n.3.tar.gz
> 
> I'll incorporate this into CVS soon, after I determine a decent way to 
> arrange the dependencies.
> 
> Brian T. Rice wrote:
> 
>> Fantastic! We went over this on IRC (see logs at 
>> http://tunes.org/~coreyr/read.php?chan=slate&date=04.08.21 ; the 
>> discussion begins immediately), and I gave some suggestions and 
>> explained a few rare but helpful selectors (and a bug was fixed, 
>> apparently). I've made those cleanups and posted it to a new directory 
>> on the Slate site:
>>
>> http://slate.tunes.org/downloads/contrib/slate-i18n.2.tar.gz
>>
>> I have not tested it. The included tests should be unit-tests, 
>> eventually, and maybe a few names changed, but for now I just gave 
>> some suggestions and cleanups and made sure that I understood the 
>> majority of it.
>>
>> � wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> The slate-i18n library has reached usable state. It includes 
>>> framework for
>>> handling strings and characters in different encodings, and Unicode 
>>> strings
>>> and characters. Latin1 is also included, but it's actually ASCII and not
>>> tested, more like an example. Almost everything that can be done with
>>> strings and characters with the string library in slate distribution 
>>> can be
>>> done with Unicode characters and strings. CharacterCollections are not
>>> ported, but they will be. It's not been refined much for 
>>> standard-compliance
>>> or efficiency, and lacks many features. There is much, repeat, *much* 
>>> still
>>> to do, and help would be appreciated. See the TODO file included (and
>>> there's much beyond what's listed there that eventually needs to be 
>>> done).
>>> I'd also like comments and suggestions, especially regarding the overall
>>> organization, naming, and style.
>>>
>>> I didn't want to pollute the list with attachments, so the library 
>>> can be
>>> downloaded from http://ollip.freeshell.org/slate/slate-i18n.tar.gz
>>>
>>>
>>> Olli
> 
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