format command and unicode

[tallhunter]

Hi,

I am trying to translate text strings into the PC's local language from english.

The mechanism works fine for straight string conversion using msgcat::mc, it correctly translates and converts the unicode to relevant characters.

However if I try to substitute strings using the format command with %s there is a problem. The problem is the characters are still encoded as unicode (e.g.\u00f6)

Can anyone point out the problem?

code snip:
if {[info exists ::msgcat::msgs($loc,$ns,$src)]} {
set temp $::msgcat::msgs($loc,$ns,$src)
if {[llength $args] == 0} {
return $::msgcat::msgs($loc,$ns,$src)
} else {
return [eval \
[list format $::msgcat::msgs($loc,$ns,$src)] \
$args]
}
}

Thanks
Paul

 

[ulis]

The args argument is passed as a list.
Try:

  eval [linsert $args 0 format [list $::msgcat::msgs($loc,$ns,$src)]]

(not tested)
You're in the Quoting Hell: you need to build a command from a list ($args) and a string ($::msg...) that can contain spaces so can be considered (by list commands) as a list.

I hate the Quoting Hell.

HTH

ulis