Poor man's translation tool?
Poor man's translation tool?
We need to do a multilingual version of a command line tool and I was thinking ... yeah, I know ... that is usually the first point of warning before I get into trouble. Anyways - this is what I came up with this evening.
I guess this is pretty much a brute force approach - but it appears to have some advantages - such as enforcing coverage of every language that you declare (it won't compile if you missed a language in a translation constant), allowing you to declare the translations near where they are used, and not adding much bulk to the source code.
But - let me run this by you guys and ask - apart from the obvious reasons that there are actual translation tools out there - is there a reason that I really should not venture down this path? What are the worst traits of this approach? Note that I would use it for only three languages (English, Norwegian and Swedish).
Come on - I want opinions - so don't hold back, but feel free to suggest alternatives as well.
http://pastebin.com/g3DwKNAu
http://pastebin.com/g3DwKNAu
We need to do a multilingual version of a command line tool and I was thinking ... yeah, I know ... that is usually the first point of warning before I get into trouble. Anyways - this is what I came up with this evening.
I guess this is pretty much a brute force approach - but it appears to have some advantages - such as enforcing coverage of every language that you declare (it won't compile if you missed a language in a translation constant), allowing you to declare the translations near where they are used, and not adding much bulk to the source code.
But - let me run this by you guys and ask - apart from the obvious reasons that there are actual translation tools out there - is there a reason that I really should not venture down this path? What are the worst traits of this approach? Note that I would use it for only three languages (English, Norwegian and Swedish).
Come on - I want opinions - so don't hold back, but feel free to suggest alternatives as well.
http://pastebin.com/g3DwKNAu
http://pastebin.com/g3DwKNAu
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