Re: Localisation...

[Tom Tromey <tromey cygnus com>]

>>>>> ">" ==   <gnomedev@sch57.msk.ru> writes:

>> What about the localisation in gnome? 
>> I have just wondered about it and found nothing on
>> http://www.gnome.org/ I whant to make a russian localized version
>> on gnome, and I need to know if there was already some work in
>> tthis direction (not directly in russification, but in localisation
>> in general) to work myself in the right field and not to redo the
>> work of others.  So what??

Gnome is using the GNU gettext package to handle message translation.
This probably handles the bulk of the work involved in localizing an
application.

Other aspects of localization are handled through the POSIX interfaces
(e.g., use setlocale() and rely on printf/strftime/etc).  It's
possible that some applications don't do this correctly; if you find
problems, please report them as bugs.

Read:

	http://www.cygnus.com/~tromey/gnome/l10n.html

for more information on how to help translate Gnome into Russian (or
any language).

Yes, this page should probably be on gnome.org.

It's possible that we still don't have our act fully together wrt the
Free Translation Project.  I'll see.

Tom