Re: gettext feature request

[felix]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 10:44:09PM +0200, Jean-Jacques Brucker wrote:
> 
> I like what you wrote 12 years ago (
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2009-02/msg00258.html ). IMHO,
> it could have change some people's mind about bash, and could have saved
> developer energy.
> 
> 
> > $'...' already exists, so you can't use that for localization.
> 

I've done a little job around *localization*, approx 8 years ago:
  bash localization won't work with multilines strings (with strong
                                                 syntax or through `eval`)
  https://stackoverflow.com/a/14147336/1765658

There are some interesting *works around*!

My last function is not perfect, but work on most cases:

 f() {
    local store=false OPTIND OPTARG OPTERR varname
    while getopts 'd:v:' opt ;do
        case $opt in
            d ) local TEXTDOMAIN=$OPTARG ;;
            v ) varname=$OPTARG ;;
        esac
    done
    shift $((OPTIND-1))
    eval 'local msg=$"'"${1//[\"\$\`]}"\"
    shift
    printf ${varname+-v} $varname "$msg" "$@"
 }
 
 f -d libc -v string "Permission denied"
 echo $string
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