New external dependecy request (ICU)



Hi,

I want to add a new GNOME dependency on icu (
http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/).

As GNOME translators know, we have lots of modules translating the same
strings (language names, country names, timezone names, date/time
formats, etc...).

We need a way to share those translations between all our modules so we
reuse work, just like libraries do.

I was looking at the Debian's iso-codes (
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/i/iso-codes/) package to get this
information shared because the author has the same objective, but then I
found icu.

Icu has the needed database already prepared to work and translated into
lots of languages (we should add more but it's easier than start from
the ground).

What will we won with ICU?

Just look at: http://oss.software.ibm.com/cgi-bin/icu/lx/en/?_=es_ES and
you will see all the information we can get without the need of a
translator to give us that information.

Of course, I'm not talking about use all icu functionality because it
has some functionality already available with libc but the translations
database is the best thing we can get, also, it's used by other projects
so there are more people maintaining it.

If you want an example that use this library, just look at my
localization capplet (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130601).

If the library is accepted, I will start sending patches against GNOME
modules to use it so we reduce the duplicated strings.

What do you think?.

Cheers.
-- 
Carlos Perelló Marín
Debian GNU/Linux Sid (PowerPC)
Linux Registered User #121232
mailto:carlos pemas net || mailto:carlos gnome org
http://carlos.pemas.net
Valencia - Spain

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