Re: internationalization: I can't get it to work

From: Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan (sharuzzaman@myrealbox.com)
Date: Tue Sep 24 2002 - 02:15:33 EDT

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    don't know whether this will help.

    from http://www.abisource.com/help/en-US/problems/problemsfaq.html

    AbiWord FAQ

    1. Languages and Internationalization

    1.1 How do I change Languages in AbiWord?

    AbiWord can work with menus and strings translated into many different languages by configuring the system properly:

    In Windows, go to Control Panel->Regional Settings, and select a locale.

    In a Unix based system, use something like this (using bash):

    export LANG=sv_SE

    unset LC_ALL

    in your .profile

    -----Original Message-----
    From: raphael@cs.uky.edu (Raphael Finkel)
    To: abiword-dev@abisource.com
    Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 08:57:39 -0400
    Subject: internationalization: I can't get it to work

    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

    ------------------------
    Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan



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