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This is the README file for the internationalization sample for wxWidgets.
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Q. What does this stupid program do?
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A. It demonstrates how to translate all program messages to a foreign language.
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In any program using wxWidgets there is going to be 3 kinds of messages: the
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messages from the program itself, the messages from the wxWidgets library and
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the messages from the system (e.g. system error messages). This program
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translates the first 2 kinds of messages but the system messages will be only
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translated if your system supports it.
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Brief usage summary: "Test|File" tries to open a non existing file (provoking
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system error message), "Test|Play" shows a message box asking for a number.
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Hint: try some special values like 9 and 17.
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Q. Why the error message when I try to open a non existing file is only partly
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translated?
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A. Your system doesn't have the translation in the language you use, sorry.
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Q. Why the message when I enter '9' is not translated?
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A. This is on purpose: the corresponding string wasn't enclosed in _() macro and
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so didn't get into the message catalog when it was created using xgettext.
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Q. Why the message when I enter '17' is only partly translated?
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A. This will only work under some versions of Linux, don't worry if the second
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half of the sentence is not translated.
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Q. I don't speak french, what about translations to <language>?
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A. Please write them - see the next question. French is chosen by default
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because it's the only translation which is currently available. To test
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translations to the other languages please run the sample with 2 command line
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arguments: the full language name and the name of the directory where the
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message catalogs for this language are (will be taken as 2 first letters of
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the language name if only 1 argument is given).
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Q. How to do translations to other language?
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A. First of all, you will need the GNU gettext tools (see the next questions).
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After you've probably installed them, type the following (example is for Unix
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and you should do exactly the same under Windows).
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# all translations forgiven language should be in a separate directory.
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# Please use the standard abbreviation for the language names!
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mkdir <language>
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cd <language>
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# generate the .po file for the program itself
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# see `xgettext --help' for options, "-C" is important!
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xgettext -C -n -k_ -kwxPLURAL:1,2 -kwxTRANSLATE -o internat.po ../internat.cpp
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# .po file for wxWidgets might be generated in the same way. An already
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# generated wxstd.pot as well as translations for some languages can be
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# found in the locale directory.
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cp ../../locale/<language>.po ./wxstd.pot
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- or -
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cp ../../locale/wxstd.pot .
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# now edit the files and do translate strings (this isn't done by gettext)
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# you can use another editor if you wish :-) No need to edit wxstd.pot if you
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# already got a translated one.
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vi internat.po wxstd.pot
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# create the message catalog files
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msgfmt -o internat.mo internat.po
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msgfmt -o wxstd.mo wxstd.pot
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# run the sample to test it
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cd ..
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./internat <language>
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Q. How to do update the translation of 'internat' sample for a language?
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A. First of all, you will need the GNU gettext tools (see the next question).
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After you've probably installed them, type the following (example is for Unix
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and you should do exactly the same under Windows).
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# enter the directory of an already-existing translations which needs to be updated
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cd <language>
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# the -j flag tells xgettext to merge and not simply overwrite the output file
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xgettext -j -C -n -k_ -kwxPLURAL:1,2 -kwxTRANSLATE -o internat.po ../internat.cpp
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# now edit the files and do translate the new strings (this isn't done by gettext)
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vi internat.po
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# update the message catalog:
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msgfmt -o internat.mo internat.po
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Q. How to get the gettext tools?
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A. For Unix, you should be able to get the source distribution of any GNU mirror
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(see www.gnu.org for a start). gettext() version 0.10 is buggy, try to get at
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least version strictly greater than 0.10. gettext RPMs can be downloaded from
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the standard locations for Linux. For Windows, you can get the precompiled
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binaries from wxWidgets web page.
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Q. What's i18n?
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A. Count the number of letters in the word "internationalization".
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Q. Where to send comments,
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additional translations,
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flames,
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money?
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A. To Vadim Zeitlin <zeitlin@dptmaths.ens-cachan.fr>,
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wxWidgets list <wx-dev@lists.wxwidgets.org>,
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/dev/null (platform-dependent),
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wxWidgets dev team Swiss bank account.
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