On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Glenn Fowler <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 03:18:13 +0200 Roland Mainz wrote: >> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Glenn Fowler <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Fri, 25 May 2012 21:14:09 +0200 Lionel Cons wrote: >> >> On 24 May 2012 22:40, Glenn Fowler <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > >> >> > this is fixed in the next release >> >> > thanks >> > >> >> Thank you. Did you merge Roland Mainz's localisation patch, too? >> > >> > not yet >> > l18n is one of the items lurking in the todo list > >> Erm... AFAIK this is "l10n" (=localisation). i18n > > yes, thanks for catching that -- if I repeat the mistake shame on me > >> (=internationalisation) is (restricted to Unix/Linux application) more >> or less about that application can process characters outside the >> ASCII range. > >> > there are some curfty message catalog generation scripts that need to be >> > dusted off and re-tested >> > including the parts that reap l18n strings from scripts. > >> Erm... this can be split into three pieces which can be done in parallel: >> 1. Localise scripts, e.g. replace "..." string literals with $"..." >> 2. Generate catalogs for the "C" locale using $ ksh93 -D scriptname >> ... # and put them under $INSTALLROOT in the right place >> 3. Create toolchain/scripts which fetches the C strings from these >> catalogs and feeds them to something like Google translate (if no >> manual translation is available) > >> Glenn: I can easily do [1] if you accept patches for that (my previous >> one for tar.sh needs to be updated anyway... and there is plenty of >> other script stuff which needs to be localised in ast-open) ... > > before you do that let me make sure the l10n machinery works
Erm... I wrote a test module (see http://svn.nrubsig.org/svn/people/gisburn/scripts/tests/unfixed_tests/sun_solaris_script_l10n.sh) to watch over the msg*-utilities and ksh93 in ast-open that they work properly together ... > so that you can test the "..." => $"..." patches before submitting them > and so you can test that the l10n stuff works outside of the gsf magic > environment > > I'll try to look at this before my vacation 1st 2 weeks in july Ok... as note: Next interesting date is the OpenSuSE 12.2 at the end of next week... ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [email protected] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 3992797 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ ast-developers mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-developers
