Hello Lasse, I've created a framework for the internationalization of man pages. It works as follows:
As a prerequisite, the po4a tools are needed, see [1]. See the attached patch: The script create-translation-template.sh updates the translation template named xz-man.pot from all man pages in the subdirectories of src/ (currently it contains 638 gettext messages). A German translation (de.po) is already included. Other po files (which will hopefully arrive in the future) also need to be placed in src/, and the language code needs to be added in the [po4a_langs] line in po4a.conf. Then run the script create-translated-manpages.sh (or simply "po4a po4a.conf") to create the translated man pages. The Groff files will be placed in the subdirectories of src/, where the English man pages reside. If needed, the storage location can be changed in po4a.conf. Unfortunately, I have no experience with GNU Autotools, I'm just a translator, and no more than that. I don't know how to integrate the contents of my scripts with "configure" and the existing m4 macros. Once it works, xz needs a second translation domain at GNU TP. BTW, first I tried to submit my changes via a merge request at Github [2], because I thought it's an official mirror owned by you. But it isn't, and the owner explained to me that all his changes get overwritten by the mirroring script, and recommended me to contact you directly. Obviously he doesn't understand how real mirroring works … [1] https://po4a.org/index.php [2] https://github.com/xz-mirror/xz Best Regards, Mario
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