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Looking at STR 3289, I don't know much about adding another
language to an app, neither with POSIX catguts, nor GNU gettext.
Both seem to be in use, but can anyone give me a hint on how these
are applied across our supported platforms?
Neither do I but I have had to add translations to a web site which
used i18n in a similar way.
The most obvious thing to prove that Fluid can do i18n would
be a German version of Fluid, however, I assume, libraries need
to be installed, and breaking the Fluid build process is the
last thing I want to do.
I don't think that the fluid build process would be affected in any
way for implementation of this feature for users. But yes,
translations of fluid itself would require additional libs and
introduce dependencies. Fluid translation would be too much work.
IIRC you need to change the source code to "mark" all strings that
are subject to translation, e.g. change "YES" to _("YES") or
something like that. A simple example project would be much more
helpful.
Actually '_' is a name of a function that is called to translate the
text "YES" to "JA" in German.
This translation is based on translation tables that map the
original English text to any other language. This is done with
external file types .po and .mo.
There's a commandline tool named xgettext ("Extract translatable
strings from given input files.") whose manpage might be a start to
learn what's going on. I forgot much of it again since I checked
that.
I believe the "write strings" menu in Fluid is related.
What you would do (AFAICT) in a real application is:
(1) extract all translatable strings out of the source files (and
somehow .fl files or the written "strings" too), likely using
xgettext.
(2) build a translation table (.mo or .po, don't know) for any
language
(3) anybody may edit the translations for their particular language
(3a) I'm not sure if these translations must be "compiled" in any
way.
(4) the program accesses the translation table at startup and
whenever a source string needs to be translated.
This is a high level (low knowledge) description of what I learned
about this issue.
I'm not sure how useful the file 'test-xgettext.fl'
posted by Nikita Egorov (aka Nikego) is. I gave up.
I wish you good luck and success!
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