[gtkmm] Announce: the compose library, v. 1.0

[Ole Laursen <olau hardworking dk>]

Hi,

I think I've forgotten to announce the release of my string
composition library. Basically, it supports syntax like this:

  Glib::ustring s;

  s = ucompose("Account no. %1 has a total of %2.", account_no, total);

Why is this on-topic here? Because it is almost impossible to i18n a
GUI application that concatenates user visible strings without making
use of such a library.


Benefits:

  - produces very i18n-friendly strings

  - much more readable code than e.g. with operator+ and
    boost::lexical_cast

  - native C++, no type-insafe, awkward snprintf

  - flexible, supports all types with ostream operator<<

  - very simple, just one header file


Fetch it here:

  http://www.cs.auc.dk/~olau/compose/

Note that you need to remove a line in the header if you're using GCC
2.95. I know this is a bit lame, but that's the price you pay for
avoiding a full-blown library with configure script etc. :-)

-- 
Ole Laursen
http://www.cs.auc.dk/~olau/