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# Loading translated strings from a message catalog - or in our terminology, from a 'datasource' (One can imagine various datasources, but currently the only supported one is a file). # Formatting numbers, currency values and dates: this information can be fetched directly from the operating system. | # Loading translated strings from a message catalog - or in our terminology, from a 'datasource' (One can imagine various datasources, but currently the only supported one is a file). | ||
# Formatting numbers, currency values and dates: this information can be fetched directly from the operating system. | |||
==Interface== | ==Interface== | ||
Revision as of 15:47, 9 October 2006
User documentation for the i18n library
Overview
The i18n library is intended to enable localisation of Eiffel programs.
We divide this task into two parts:
- Loading translated strings from a message catalog - or in our terminology, from a 'datasource' (One can imagine various datasources, but currently the only supported one is a file).
- Formatting numbers, currency values and dates: this information can be fetched directly from the operating system.