I am considering using Haskell to develop a small commercial project. The program must be internationalized (in simplified Chinese, to be specific), and my client requests that it be delivered in the form of a Windows Installer with one click. So basically these are two problems that I am facing right now:
- I18n Haskell programs: The method described in Internationalizing Haskell Programs worked (partially) if I change the program execution command from
LOCALE=zh_CN.UTF-8 ./Mainto LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8 ./Main(I work on Ubuntu 10.10), however, the exit from China is distorted, and I don't know why this is. - Distribution on Windows: I'm used to working under Linux, as well as building and bundling my Haskell programs with Cabal, but what is the most natural way to create a one-click Windows installer from a Haskell bonded package? Is bamse package the right way?
------ Details for the first problem ------
What I've done:
$ hgettext -k __ -o messages.pot Main.hs
$ msginit --input=messages.pot --locale=zh_CN.UTF-8
(Edit the zh_CN.po file, adding Chinese translation)
$ mkdir -p zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES
$ msgfmt --output-file=zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/hello.mo zh_CN.po
$ ghc --make Main.hs
$ LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8 ./Main
And the result was like this:
This means that gettext actually works, but for some reason the generated zh_CN.mo file is broken (my guess). I am sure my zh_CN.po file is encoded in UTF-8. Also, in addition to using System.IO.putStrLn, I also tried System.IO.UTF8.putStrLnto output a string that didn't work either.
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