internationalization: I can't get it to work

From: Raphael Finkel (raphael@cs.uky.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 23 2002 - 08:57:39 EDT

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    I must be doing something wrong; I can't see my internationalization of menus.

    This is what I have done.

    1. I built built parts of a Yiddish yi-YI.po file in abi/po.
    2. I ran ui-backport.pl yi-YI.
    3. In the installed directory (/usr/local/share/AbiSuite/AbiWord/), I
            built a system profile for Yiddish, with contents:

                    <SystemDefaults
                        DocumentLocale="yi-YI"
                            RulerUnits="inch"
                            DefaultPageSize="Letter"
                    />

            This file is in each of the following three files: system.profile-yi,
            system.profile-yi-YI, system.profile-yi-YI.utf-8. I got debugging-output
            errors from AbiWord unless I had all of them.
    3. In my startup script, I call AbiWord having first set environment variables
            LANG=yi_YI.utf-8, LOCALE=yi_YI
    4. The debugging AbiWord tells me some good news and some bad news:

            DEBUG: EncodingManager reports the following:
                    NativeEncodingName is utf-8, LanguageISOName is yi,
                            Native8BitEncodingName is utf-8,
                            LanguageISOTerritory is YI, fallbackchar is '?'
            DEBUG: Prefs: Using LOCALE info from environment [en-US]
            DEBUG: CreateMenuLabelSet: szLanguage_ en-US, szLanguage en-US
    5. I see no Yiddish in any menu.

    What is missing?

    Raphael Finkel

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