i18n in Perl/Tk

gri6507 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Fellow Monks,

I have recently been asked to internationalize one of my Perl/Tk applications. Since I have never done so in Tk or Perl for that matter, I would like to ask for your opinions and suggestions for doing so. The reason I am asking is because

I am not sure perl supports i18n (presumably UTF-8)?
I'm not sure Tk supports i18n
If the anwer to both of the above is Yes, are there standard methods for implementing i18n?

Many thanks in advance!

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Re: i18n in Perl/Tk by shmem (Chancellor) on Dec 02, 2007 at 23:14 UTC
perl's i18n support is pretty complete, so I'd answer your first two answers with 'yes'. As for the third, see perllocale, perluniintro, perlunicode, the module Encode for encoding and recoding. For Tk-specific "best practice" (language files?) I have no answer, since I never did such a thing. --shmem _($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo. G°\ / /\_¯/(q / ---------------------------- \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."· ");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}	[reply]

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Re: i18n in Perl/Tk
by shmem (Chancellor) on Dec 02, 2007 at 23:14 UTC

As for the third, see perllocale, perluniintro, perlunicode, the module Encode for encoding and recoding. For Tk-specific "best practice" (language files?) I have no answer, since I never did such a thing.

--shmem

_($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                              /\_¯/(q    /
----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}

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