On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 01:30:40PM +0200, Ole Sebastian Stein wrote:
> Hi, I started using BB just a few weeks ago and I must say BB is
> wonderful. Enough backrubbing.
>
> Now, I took a look into the source tree for the 0.60.x-version (if I'm
> right) and saw that there are some language stuff there. Seems to me I
> should be able to compile with another language.
>
> How do I do it?
>
No need to compile any differently than usual -- Blackbox checks to
see if your locale is set, and if so tries to use the translations
for that language. To see what locale you're box is set up to use,
try running
1) locale
or 2) echo $LANG
at the command line. I believe the code for Norwegian is no_NO.
To run blackbox under a different locale, you should be able to just
run it via
LANG=code blackbox
so for example
LANG=es_ES blackbox
should result in Spanish menus and messages.
> I also noticed that there was no Norwegian translation. If the author
> believes it would be of any interest, I will make one (unless someone is
> allready doing that and I am just another anoying user who cannot wait
> for proper releases:).
>
The market for Norwegian (and many other languages) is wide open.
Basically, you just need to go through the files in nls/C and
translate the lines beginning with #'s (leave the ones starting
with $ alone). The tar it up and ship it off to me, and I'll try
to get it into the next release.
Just in case this spurs a few folks on to do a translation -- check
with me first, just to be sure no one else has started on the same
language. At the moment I don't know of anyone working on new
translations, though.
Jeff Raven
