Re: Language code to language name mapping

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 16:52 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> 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.

How often do you actually need to do it? What's actually used for right
now?