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/*
Demonstration of internationalization

--- begin - lang.po
# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.
# Copyright (C) YEAR Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR.
#
#, fuzzy
msgid ""
msgstr ""
"Project-Id-Version: lang 0.1.0\n"
"POT-Creation-Date: 2001-02-02 11:55+0100\n"
"PO-Revision-Date: 2001-02-02 11:59+01:00\n"
"Last-Translator: Bart van Pelt <bart@vpelt.demon.nl>\n"
"Language-Team: NL <nl@li.org>\n"
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1\n"
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8-bit\n"

#: lang.cxx:5
msgid "Start call_b"
msgstr "Start aanroep call_b"

#: lang.cxx:9
msgid "End  call_b with status "
msgstr "Einde aanroep call_b met status "

#: lang.cxx:16
msgid "Start call_a"
msgstr "Start aanroep call_a"

#: lang.cxx:22
msgid "End  call_a with status "
msgstr "Einde aanroep call_a met status "

#: lang.cxx:29
msgid "Start main"
msgstr "Start aanroep main"

#: lang.cxx:35
msgid "End  main with status "
msgstr "Einde aanroep main met status "
--- begin - lang.po

compile language definition
msgfmt -o lang.mo lang.po

place language specific file to correct place
LOCALEDIR = /usr/share/locale
PACKAGE = lang

cp lang.mo /usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES

set environment variable
export LANG=nl

run program

$ lang

Start aanroep main
Start aanroep call_a
Start aanroep call_b
Einde aanroep call_b met status 3
Einde aanroep call_a met status 3
Einde aanroep main met status 3

unset lang

$ lang
Start main
Start call_a
Start call_b
End  call_b with status 3
End  call_a with status 3
End  main with status 3

*/

#include <locale.h>
#include <libintl.h>
#include <iostream>

#define PACKAGE "lang"
#define LOCALEDIR "/usr/share/locale"

int call_b(int pStatus)
{
  cout << gettext("Start call_b") << endl;

  int status = pStatus + 1;

  cout << gettext("End  call_b with status ") << status << endl;

  return status;
}

int call_a(int pStatus)
{
  cout << gettext("Start call_a") << endl;

  int status = pStatus + 1;

  status = call_b(status);

  cout << gettext("End  call_a with status ") << status << endl;

  return status;
}

int main(int argc, char * argv[])
{
  setlocale(LC_ALL, "");

  textdomain(PACKAGE);

  bindtextdomain(PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);

  textdomain(PACKAGE);

  cout << gettext("Start main") << endl;

  int status = 1;

  status = call_a(status);

  cout << gettext("End  main with status ") << status << endl;

  return status;
}

In article <3A623AF2.6090302@uci.edu>,
  Charlie Zender <zender@uci.edu> wrote:
> Thanks for the info.
>
> OK, after much trial and error I now have some i18n features
implemented
> in a single program
>
> 3 simple questions:
> 1. Where are discussions about i18n and l10n "on-topic"? is
> gnu.misc.discuss the right place? I could not find any active
newsgroups
> with discussions of i18n, bot comp.std.internat and
> comp.software.international seem inactive.
>
> 2. What do "po" and "mo" stand for? just curious
>
> 3. Currently I am testing my i18n features by invoking, e.g., export
> LANG=es at the command line. My spanish translation shows up fine, but
> it uses, i think, the default RedHat 7 character set. How do I change
> the character set in my xterms to be, say, iso-8859 so that things
like
> accented characters have a better chance of showing up correctly?
> export LANG=es changes all of the LC_* tokens, but apparently the
> xterm still uses the ascii character set. I want to know how to tell
> a given xterm to really be a spanish/french/... xterm and use the
> correct character set and keyboard mapping.
>
> Thanks,
> Charlie
> --
> Charlie Zender zender@uci.edu (949) 824-2987/FAX-3256, Department of
> Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine CA 92697-3100
>
>


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