Hi all, I was wondering wether using Gettext [1] for internationalisation/localisation would be something to give a try. Gettext is GNU's well established system for translation software; it's the PO file system. Good utils are available for translating and maintaining PO files, like KBabel [3].
I don't have practical experience with it, other than translating the chemicalMIME package. I am exploring this, but it should not be that hard. For example, the following was generated with 'xgettext -kGettextResource.gettext src/org/openscience/jmol/app/AboutDialog.java': --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE. # Copyright (C) YEAR THE PACKAGE'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER # This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package. # FIRST AUTHOR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, YEAR. # #, fuzzy msgid "" msgstr "" "Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n" "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n" "POT-Creation-Date: 2005-05-16 08:41+0200\n" "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n" "Last-Translator: FULL NAME <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>\n" "Language-Team: LANGUAGE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>\n" "MIME-Version: 1.0\n" "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=CHARSET\n" "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n" #: src/org/openscience/jmol/app/AboutDialog.java:55 msgid "About Jmol" msgstr "" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And that file can be translated to anyfile... But I haven't compiled things yet... it just gives an idea of how it works... Egon 1. http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/ 2. http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/gettext_205.html 3. http://i18n.kde.org/tools/kbabel/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/D6336BA6 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7393&alloc_id=16281&op=click _______________________________________________ Jmol-developers mailing list Jmol-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers
