i18n Hello world

Question

Hi, I'm trying to write a simple Hello world program in i18n form, using C... Can someone please help me? Thanks

Answer 1

Hum, let's try to make some sense out of this question :) If you use C and have gettext available, you can do:

#include <libintl.h>
#include <locale.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main(void)
{
  setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
  bindtextdomain ("hello", "/usr/share/locale");
  textdomain ("hello");
  printf (gettext ("Hello, world!\n"));
  exit (0);
}

Answer 2

Have a look at the GNU Hello World program. It demonstrates a lot of good programming principles, including internationalization. From the hello man page:

GNU Gettext (see Introduction) is used for internationalization support. Hello's greeting has been translated into many languages.