Internationalization/User guide

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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:

  1. 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).
  2. Formatting numbers, currency values and dates: this information can be fetched directly from the operating system.

Interface

Locale

Locale Manager

Locale ID

Putting it all together

Datasources

File

File format

File Manager