Re: Language code to language name mapping

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

Vincent Untz wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> Le mercredi 26 novembre 2008, à 16:27 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod a écrit :
>> My question right now is, how do applications (intlclock, etc...) do that
>> currently?  And how do people think it should be done.
> 
> intlclock doesn't use iso-codes :-)
> Looking at totem: it parses the iso-codes xml. See
> totem_lang_table_init() in src/totem-menu.c. In the end, it all ends in
> hash tables.
> 
> Abusing gettext could be nice, but the totem code is quite easy too.

Thanks for the quick response.

Having to parse XML sucks.  It's not a lot of code, but doesn't have to be
that hard.  A new library for it is definitely overkill.  That's why I like
the gettext abuse.


behdad


> Vincent