Re: [gtkmm] Announce: version 1.0.4 of ucompose.hpp

[Julian Missig <julian jabber org>]

Very nice! I had made my own substitute function which did similar 
things, but not as robustly. Also, using %1 and %2 makes it easier for 
the translators than my %s %s %s

Thanks!
Julian

On 21 Jun 2004, at 16:44, Ole Laursen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've had reports of mysterious crashes on a Finnish UTF-8 locale,
> which upon investigation turned out to be because ucompose.hpp was
> using std::ostringstream which is not wide enough to hold the Finnish
> thousands separator in UTF-8 (and so Glibmm was being feed invalid
> UTF-8).
>
> So I've now converted it to std::wostringstream instead and relased
> version 1.0.4 of my string composition library. You can find it here:
>
>   http://www.cs.aau.dk/~olau/compose/
>
>
> About the string composition library: it is small library (i.e. one
> header) which defines a bunch of overloaded functions for allowing
> this syntax:
>
>   ucompose("The species '%1' has %2 lives.", animal, lives)
>
>     -> "The species 'cat' has 9 lives."
>
> It exist because the native C++ construct
>
>   std::string lives_str = ...;  // some conversion of int lives
>
>   "The species '" + animal + "' has " + lives_str + " lives."
>
> is tedious, error-prone, difficult to read and impossible to localise
> (which means your translators and foreign users will hate you).
>
> --
> Ole Laursen
> http://www.cs.aau.dk/~olau/
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