Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>On 18-Jul-2002 Øyvind Stegard wrote:
>
>
>>Hi again,
>>
>>I noticed that Norwegian language support is missing from the Blackbox
>>distribution. Perhaps I could do some translating, since Norwegian is my
>>mother tongue.(If the Blackbox maintainers are interested in this)
>>
>>I'm afraid I would need some instructions on how to do it, since I've
>>never translated any typical multilanguage GNU/Linux app before. (But I
>>suspect it simply involves putting in translated strings in some
>>preprocessor macro files or something ?)
>>
>>
>>
>
>It is quite simple. Copy one of the other nls directories, da_DK is a good
>one. Then look at C/*.m. This is the master file with the original language
>text. The format is quite simple:
>
>$ #FocusLast
># Focus Window on Workspace Change
>$ #DisableBindings
># Disable Bindings with Scroll Lock
>
>lines with a $ at the beggining are tags for the nls parser. The lines
>starting with # are the strings to be translated.
>
>Edit the Makefile.am to reflect your language. Then cd .. to nls/ and edit
>Makefile.am and add your language to the SUBDIRS list. Then cd .. and edit
>configure.in. Near the bottom at your language to the list (please keep it in
>alphabetical order). Run automake --foreign --include-deps and then run
>autoconf. Everything should be ready for a make && make install. Then send
>the patch to the Patch tracker on sf.net.
>
>It should only take a few hours the work is easy just tedious.
>
>
>
>
OK, I'll follow these instructions and see what happens next =).
