Re: localizable strings file with macro

FROM : Stephane Sudre
DATE : Tue Mar 04 11:21:36 2008

On 4 mars 08, at 10:28, Julien Jalon wrote:

> 1) Might not be a good idea to use CFStringGetCStringPtr as it might 
> return
> NULL2) kCFStringEncodingMacRoman is likely not a good choice as the
> encoding, especially for localized strings
>
> If I were you, I'd do something like (warning: Mail compiled code):
> const char* MyGetLocalizedCString(CFStringRef string)
> {
>    // if you need to be thread safe, add proper locks around that
>    static CFMutableDictionaryRef mapping = NULL;
>    if(mapping == NULL) {
>        mapping = CFDictionaryCreateMutable(NULL, 0,
> &kCFTypeDictionaryKeyCallBacks, NULL);
>    }
>
>    const char* result = (const char *)CFDictionaryGetValue(mapping,
> string);
>    if(result == NULL) {
>          CFStringRef localizedString = 
> CFCopyLocalizedStringFromTable(string,
> CFSTR("LibraryLocalizable"), NULL);
>          result = (const char
> *)malloc(CFStringGetMaximumSizeForEncoding(CFStringGetLength(localizedS
> tring),
> kCFStringEncodingUTF8);
> CFStringGetCString(localizedString, (char *)result, bufferSize,
> kCFStringEncodingUTF8);
> CFDictionarySetValue(mapping, string, result);


I'm not sure CFDictionarySetValue would accept a char *.