[ANN] Go and gettext, i18n

[José Carlos Nieto]

Hello list,

I was working on a Go project that required multilingual features, and I found some previous work on gettext and Go:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/golang-nuts/6-MtqMAkTus

The project link does not exists anymore but I found the code by searching a bit, the author says that he was having problems on plural forms and he also wants to do its own tools for extraction, that was not exactly what I required so I kept searching and found another dead link https://github.com/GerardNL/g5t but this time I was not able to find the new URL of the repository.

So I was forced to use cgo to wrap the standard GNU gettext and to play a little with xgettext to find how to use it with the Go syntax (xgettext does not oficially supports Go).

And I just pushed the gettext wrapper to a github repo and added some test translations to Spanish and Deutsch:

https://github.com/gosexy/gettext

Gettext is still a good translation system that has a huge translator base, so I think it's currently the best option for localisation. At least until we find another way [1].

Hope this wrapper can help you if ever run into a similar situation.

Regards, 

José Carlos

[1]: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/golang-nuts/_dHb28WG68g

[Gerard]

The project link does not exists anymore but I found the code by searching a bit, the author says that he was having problems on plural forms and he also wants to do its own tools for extraction, that was not exactly what I required so I kept searching and found another dead link https://github.com/GerardNL/g5t 

Hello, the new link is https://github.com/grd/g5t 

However it's a toy thing. The syntax doesn't match that of the real gettext. I didn't advertise it (except on the project dashboard).

Gerard