Re: New i18n subsystem ready for test!


Subject: Re: New i18n subsystem ready for test!
From: Dom Lachowicz (cinamod@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Nov 20 2000 - 18:10:51 CST


Great work Kenneth! I'm glad that you did this. Hopefully you got some sleep too :) Will be committed shortly...

Dom

>From: Kenneth Christiansen
>To: abiword-dev@abisource.com
>Subject: New i18n subsystem ready for test!
>Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 01:42:52 +0100 (CET)
>
>
>Hi All Gettext-Loving Translation Ants,
>
>I took a look at the i18n subsystem and made scripts so you can
>work with 100% gettext compatible PO files - meaning you can use
>all your common used tools.
>
>Also, it provides the same scripts that are well known from the Gnome
>project.
>
>Let's take a look at it all
>
>To generate a first po file from the strings file, goto the po/ subdir
>and issue:
>
> ./abi-extract LANGCODE
>
> , where LANGCODE is 5 letters like da-DK
>
>To update your po files to reflect the latest changes, do:
>
> ./update.pl LANGCODE
>
>To backport your po file to a normal abiword readable string, issue:
>
> ./ui-backport.pl LANGCODE
>
>
>All the scripts can be found at the following address:
>
> o abi-po-upgrade-0.4.tar.gz
>
>Copy the tar.gz file into your abi/ dir, and extract it with
>tar zxvf abi-po-upgrade-0.4.tar.gz. This should create a po/ subdirectory
>
>
>Please let me know about all problems
>
>Cheers, Kenneth Christiansen
>
>
>


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