Re: php and locales

2002-01-11 Thread Anders Jackson
Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Hi. [...] In short, (1) use ASCII character set, this is mandatory, (2) use English, this is should, but I imagine that English is the only language which can fully expressed using ASCII character set. 2 isn't quite right. There is at

Re: php and locales

2002-01-11 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 06:46:56PM +0100, Anders Jackson wrote: 2 isn't quite right. There is at least one English word that have ë in it (an umlat-e?). But because i'm not native English, I don't remember what that word is. ;-) Generally spoken, most heavy-metal-bands have Umlauts in

Re: php and locales

2002-01-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 06:46:56PM +0100, Anders Jackson wrote: Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Hi. [...] In short, (1) use ASCII character set, this is mandatory, (2) use English, this is should, but I imagine that English is the only language which can fully

Re: php and locales

2002-01-11 Thread Andres Soolo
On Fri, 2002-Jan-11, Anders Jackson wrote: (2) use English, this is should, but I imagine that English is the only language which can fully expressed using ASCII character set. 2 isn't quite right. There is at least one English word that have ë in it (an umlat-e?). But because i'm not

Re: php and locales

2002-01-11 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
Hi, At Fri, 11 Jan 2002 19:57:04 +0200, Andres Soolo wrote: 2 isn't quite right. There is at least one English word that have ë in it (an umlat-e?). But because i'm not native English, I don't remember what that word is. ;-) There are 'na?ve' and '?sthetical'. In recent decades,

Re: php and locales

2002-01-11 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 06:46:56PM +0100, Anders Jackson wrote: 2 isn't quite right. There is at least one English word that have ë in it (an umlat-e?). But because i'm not native English, I don't remember what that word is. ;-) Generally spoken, most heavy-metal-bands have Umlauts in their

Re: php and locales

2002-01-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 06:46:56PM +0100, Anders Jackson wrote: Tomohiro KUBOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Hi. [...] In short, (1) use ASCII character set, this is mandatory, (2) use English, this is should, but I imagine that English is the only language which can fully

Re: php and locales

2002-01-11 Thread Andres Soolo
On Fri, 2002-Jan-11, Anders Jackson wrote: (2) use English, this is should, but I imagine that English is the only language which can fully expressed using ASCII character set. 2 isn't quite right. There is at least one English word that have ë in it (an umlat-e?). But because i'm not

Re: php and locales

2002-01-11 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
Hi, At Fri, 11 Jan 2002 19:57:04 +0200, Andres Soolo wrote: 2 isn't quite right. There is at least one English word that have ë in it (an umlat-e?). But because i'm not native English, I don't remember what that word is. ;-) There are 'na?ve' and '?sthetical'. In recent decades,

php and locales

2002-01-09 Thread Gaetano Paolone
Hi, I am packaging a PHP4 application. This software has been localized so there are lines like: ? echo gettext (Hello world);? instead of: ? echo Hello world;? I was able to generate the po file with xgettext and the mo file with msgfmt. I have always been in troubles with locales, so here

Re: php and locales

2002-01-09 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 10:40:28 +0100 Gaetano Paolone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) has the original gettext source code to be written in english? The software I am working on is not in english and so it will generate a po in another language (italian). I can manage to make the english po

Re: php and locales

2002-01-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:40:28AM +0100, Gaetano Paolone wrote: Hi, I am packaging a PHP4 application. This software has been localized so there are lines like: ? echo gettext (Hello world);? instead of: ? echo Hello world;? I was able to generate the po file with xgettext and the

Re: php and locales

2002-01-09 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
Hi, At Wed, 9 Jan 2002 10:40:28 +0100, Gaetano Paolone wrote: 1) has the original gettext source code to be written in english? The software I am working on is not in english and so it will generate a po in another language (italian). I can manage to make the english po file

php and locales

2002-01-09 Thread Gaetano Paolone
Hi, I am packaging a PHP4 application. This software has been localized so there are lines like: ? echo gettext (Hello world);? instead of: ? echo Hello world;? I was able to generate the po file with xgettext and the mo file with msgfmt. I have always been in troubles with locales, so here

Re: php and locales

2002-01-09 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 10:40:28 +0100 Gaetano Paolone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) has the original gettext source code to be written in english? The software I am working on is not in english and so it will generate a po in another language (italian). I can manage to make the english po

Re: php and locales

2002-01-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:40:28AM +0100, Gaetano Paolone wrote: Hi, I am packaging a PHP4 application. This software has been localized so there are lines like: ? echo gettext (Hello world);? instead of: ? echo Hello world;? I was able to generate the po file with xgettext and the mo

Re: php and locales

2002-01-09 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Gaetano Paolone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1) has the original gettext source code to be written in english? No. But gettext(MESSAGE) returns the original MESSSAGE if no translation could be found (for example because I have selected sv as language, and there is no Swedish catalog yet). An

Re: php and locales

2002-01-09 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
Hi, At Wed, 9 Jan 2002 10:40:28 +0100, Gaetano Paolone wrote: 1) has the original gettext source code to be written in english? The software I am working on is not in english and so it will generate a po in another language (italian). I can manage to make the english po file