Care should be taken to put the mo files to the appropriate place at install time (and that csound is looking in the right place). I think this is a great move for csound! Integrating into the system language without any special action (a CS_LANG env var) is really nice On Dec 26, 2007 3:53 PM, jpff wrote: > I seem to have the GNU gettext system running in my experimental > system. This does have tools to help create translations. I have > been playing with a French version (via Babelfish and my very bad > remembered French). It is not build by default but I would like to > see it become so as it is one less thing to maintain. > > If anyone wishes to try an do a (say) Spanish translation the process > is to copy the file po/csound.po to po/spanish.po and then insert the > translations -- rather obvious when you see the code. Emacs has a > mode to assist. Francophones might like to fix my French as well (in > po/french.po). > > At present not well integrated into SCons, but to try it one needs to > set useGettext=1 and generateXMG=0 > > Binary translations currently live in po/XXX/LC_MESSAGES/csound5.mo > where XXX is replaced by the language > > I have a Makefile with the lines > > po/fr/LC_MESSAGES/csound5.mo: po/french.po > msgfmt -o po/fr/LC_MESSAGES/csound5.mo po/french.po > > po/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/csound5.mo: po/american.po > msgfmt -o po/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/csound5.mo po/american.po > > po/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/csound5.mo: po/csound.po > msgfmt -o po/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/csound5.mo po/csound.po > > If/when people are happy we can invite users to contribute > translations. > > ==John ffitch > > "This research is of insufficient standard" > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Csound-devel mailing list > Csound-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/csound-devel > -- Felipe Sateler ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Csound-devel mailing list Csound-devel@lists.sourceforge.net