busybox Digest, Vol 2, Issue 11

[Lord Sidiuz]

> better to call it something more likely to be unused like BB_SETTERM
> -mike
> 

yeah, I thaugh about it but it seemed more natural ps# but ok you are
right I think I'll change it, I'll send the patch soon because nobody
seemed to say no to my idea,

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> Is this setterm the same one as I get when I type "man setterm"?  If so,

yes it is

> what's PS3 for?

I need it to save the configuration, I could use a file but I don't like that,
the thing I put in ps# is the escapes codes for the colors and staff, 

> > if internationalitation is what you wan't it can be done at compile
> > time, just make usage.h be a symlink to usage_english.h and anyone can
> > make a usage_spanish.h or usage_deucth.h and then edit the symlink to
> > get the rigth languaje, ok it would also be nessesary to change every
> > source that use
> >  printf ( " hello something error\n " );
> >
> > to this
> >  printf ( HELLO_SOMETHING_ERROR );
> >
> > and make one file containing all the strings e.g.
> 
> I'm familiar with this sort of thing.  We should actually have a message
> lookup table we index into, because gcc sucks at merging duplicate strings.
> (The macro can hide that.)
> 
> That's probably a good idea anyway. :)
> 
actually we could use defines like this, when you do the make
menuconfig add a new option for configuring the lang, default to
english of course, and then in the files that contains the actual
messages
use something like this:

#if LANG=english
#define mesage1 "the message"
...
#else if LANG=spanish
#define mesage1 "el mensaje"
...
#else if LANG=russian
#define mesage1 "el mensajobski" //sorry if that is offensive I just
can't help myself
...

ok that it for now.


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