/* Localization of proper names. -*- coding: utf-8 -*- Copyright (C) 2006, 2008-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Written by Bruno Haible , 2006. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . */ /* INTRODUCTION What do Torbjörn Granlund (coreutils) François Pinard (coreutils) Danilo Šegan (gettext) have in common? A non-ASCII name. This causes trouble in the --version output. The simple "solution" unfortunately mutilates the name. $ du --version | grep Granlund Écrit par Torbjorn Granlund, David MacKenzie, Paul Eggert et Jim Meyering. $ ptx --version | grep Pinard Écrit par F. Pinard. What is desirable, is to print the full name if the output character set allows it, and the ASCIIfied name only as a fallback. $ recode-sr-latin --version ... Written by Danilo Šegan and Bruno Haible. $ LC_ALL=C recode-sr-latin --version ... Written by Danilo Segan and Bruno Haible. The 'propername' and 'propername-lite' modules do this. Plus, for languages that do not use the Latin alphabet, they allow a translator to write the name using that different writing system. In that case the propername and propername_utf8 output will look like this: () whereas the propername_lite output will just be the translated name if available, otherwise the original name (in UTF-8 if possible and in ASCII if not). To use the 'propername' module requires two simple steps: 1) Add it to the list of gnulib modules to import, 2) Change the arguments of version_etc(), from "Paul Eggert" to proper_name ("Paul Eggert") from "Torbjorn Granlund" to proper_name_utf8 ("Torbjorn Granlund", "Torbj\303\266rn Granlund") or proper_name_lite ("Torbjorn Granlund", "Torbj\303\266rn Granlund") from "F. Pinard" to proper_name_utf8 ("Franc,ois Pinard", "Fran\303\247ois Pinard") or proper_name_lite ("Franc,ois Pinard", "Fran\303\247ois Pinard") In source code, the second argument of proper_name_lite and proper_name_utf8 should use octal escapes, not UTF-8 - e.g., "Fran\303\247ois Pinard", not "François Pinard". Doing it this way can avoid mishandling non-ASCII characters if the source is recoded to non-UTF-8, or if the compiler does not treat UTF-8 as-is in character string contents. (Optionally, here you can also add / * TRANSLATORS: ... * / comments explaining how the name is written or pronounced.) Here is an example in context. char const *author_names[2] = { / * TRANSLATORS: This is the proper name "Danilo Šegan". In the original Cyrillic it is "Данило Шеган". * / proper_name_utf8 ("Danilo Segan", "Danilo \305\240egan"), proper_name ("Bruno Haible") }; Differences between proper_name_utf8 and proper_name_lite: * proper_name_lite uses the localization provided by the translator. If there is no localization, it uses the name with Unicode characters only in UTF-8 locales, otherwise it uses the original name in English. * proper_name_utf8 is more elaborate: - It uses the name with Unicode characters also when the locale encoding is not UTF-8 but contains the necessary characters (e.g. ISO-8859-x or GB18030). - If there is a localization, it produces a better result when the translator has given a poor localization. */ #ifndef _PROPERNAME_H #define _PROPERNAME_H #ifdef __cplusplus extern "C" { #endif /* Return the localization of NAME. NAME is written in ASCII. */ extern const char * proper_name (const char *name) /* NOT attribute const */; /* Return the localization of a name whose original writing is not ASCII. NAME_UTF8 is the real name, written in UTF-8 with octal or hexadecimal escape sequences. NAME_ASCII is a fallback written only with ASCII characters. */ extern const char * proper_name_utf8 (const char *name_ascii, const char *name_utf8); /* Return the localization of the name spelled NAME_ASCII in ASCII, and NAME_UTF8 in UTF-8. This function needs less infrastructure than proper_name and proper_name_utf8. */ extern const char *proper_name_lite (const char *name_ascii, const char *name_utf8); #ifdef __cplusplus } #endif #endif /* _PROPERNAME_H */