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

[Max Vasin <max-appolo mail ru>]

Julian Missig пишет:
> 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
Hi!
Excuse me if you concider this offtopic. :)
Well, there is anorther library for doing this - Boost.Format quite 
powerful, which supports both styles, and parameters like in `printf'.
> 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).


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Max Vasin.