Re: Example of gettext() program without autoconf

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From: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 12:52

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Charlie Zender <zender@uci.edu> writes:

> I could not ever figure out what a PO file is but I know that
> I need one!

A PO file is a human-edited text file which lists original phrases and
their translations to some language.  It is then compiled to a MO file
with the msgfmt program.

To make a PO file, you first generate a POT file by using xgettext on
the program sources and then fill in the blanks.

> What should PACKAGE be? "gettext"?

PACKAGE should be the name of the program which uses gettext; in your
case, it might be "NCO".

> What about LOCALEDIR?

IIRC, it is usually ${datadir}/locale, as in /usr/share/locale.

> Where do I store the translations?

You type them in PO files, which you compile to MO files, which you
install in LOCALEDIR.  You should include the MO files in the source
package so that people can install it without msgfmt.  They'll work on
all architectures; if an OS vendor uses a different format for MO
files, that doesn't matter because they'll be read with the code in
intl/ of your package.

> Where is there a complete example of all this on the net?

I don't know.

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From: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <kon@iki.fi>
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Subject: Re: Example of gettext() program without autoconf
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