Re: RFP: externalize *all* locale-specific information

From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Tue Apr 30 2002 - 12:34:51 EDT

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    At 07:52 AM 4/30/02 +0200, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote:
    >Paul Rohr <paul@abisource.com> wrote in
    >news:3.0.5.32.20020429143637.03d608c0@mail.abisource.com:
    >
    >> 2. let's make life easier for translators (non-Unix)
    >> -----------------------------------------------------
    >> Could someone more familiar with gettext explain what a
    >> Windows user would need to do to create, say, a Swahili
    >> translation that our gettext-enabled builds could use on all
    >> platforms?
    >
    >poEdit <URL: http://poedit.sourceforge.net/ > should work fine for
    >Swahili.
    >
    >> I know there are more evolved PO-handling tools on Unix, but
    >> could they do the job -- and test the results -- without
    >> installing cygwin *or* a compiler?
    >
    >Yes. poEdit can automatically compile .mo files.

    Excellent. Thanks.

    Paul

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