Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 18:53:28 +1100 From: Tim Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Michael C. Wu" <keichii@iteration.net>, Evren Yurtesen <eyurtese@turkuamk.fi>, freebsd-i18n@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i18n question about localization Message-ID: <20030126185328.A75946@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au> In-Reply-To: <20030126070315.GA97105@endless.iteration.net>; from keichii@iteration.net on Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 01:03:15AM -0600 References: <Pine.A41.4.10.10212152209050.83750-100000@bessel.tekniikka.turkuamk.fi> <20021218165202.A86732@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <20030126070315.GA97105@endless.iteration.net>
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On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 01:03:15AM -0600, Michael C. Wu wrote: > On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 04:52:02PM +1100, Tim Robbins scribbled: > | On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 10:14:53PM +0200, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > | > I was wondering if it is possible to localize sysinstall and 'all' other > | > system programs easily with the help of i18n stuff? if yes then a link to > | > a document which describes how to proceed would suffice. > | > > | > I ask this because the linux has been translated into Turkish for example > | > but there is no such thing about FreeBSD going on. I might volunteer for > | > the job if it is easy enough =) > | > | Most of the utilities in the base system aren't easy to translate yet. > | The only ones that I know of that would be easy to translate are nvi, tcsh, > | and ee. > | > | I've been thinking about implementing a GNU/Solaris style gettext() library > | and converting the utilities to use that but haven't had the time or energy > | to do it yet. > > CITRUS has this partly done. You should ask itojun et al. about it. > At any rate, import NetBSD's gettext implementation and you are almost done. As far as I can tell, the utilities that create and manipulate message catalogs are not implemented, and their library is compatible with the catalogs generated by the GNU utilities. I had planned to implement both the library and utilities, and would probably not have tried to keep the compiled message catalogs compatible with GNU. Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-i18n" in the body of the message
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