Re: State of Lua and GNU gettext?

["Dinu Gherman" <gherman@...>]

"Nikolai Kondrashov" <spbnick@gmail.com>:

> The lua-xgettext could be located at http://www.modeemi.fi/~tuomov/repos/

If I understand that correctly, I need to install Haskel, cabal
and darcs only to download lua-xgettext? That's quite heavy...

> Our current differences from the upstream are attached. They add support for
> the modulo operator, numeric character escapes and shebang.
>
> I'll try to submit our changes to Tuomo (the author) once again. Maybe he
> just overlooked my message.
>
> As to the Lua interface to the intl library, unfortunately, I'm not in a
> position to release the sources, but it is pretty easy to do your own.

Well, my interest in that isn't big enough to try to write
a Lua module like Python's gettext to access the .mo files.

In any case I'm starting to better understand the situation
around gettext support in Lua.

Thanks,

Dinu