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Re: Example of gettext() program without autoconf

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From: Charlie Zender
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 23:49
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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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From: Charlie Zender <zender@uci.edu>
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Subject: Re: Example of gettext() program without autoconf
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 15:49:06 -0800
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