Re: How to add crh.po, and address@hidden locale's .po for gettext

[Abel Cheung]

On 9/2/06, Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:

(I removed CC to libc-locales due to the content of my
question, see below for the reason)

> Assuming you want this for a glibc system (e.g. Linux), the first step is
> to create a glibc locale for it. This is unfortunately also one of the
> hardest steps, but it is the basis for the entire system. You find some
> tips about it at
>   http://www.student.uit.no/~pere/linux/glibc/howto.html
> When your locale works fine, you are encouraged to submit it to the
> glibc maintainers for inclusion.

Talking about submission of locale, is it a better idea or not to
submit to belocs? I guess belocs would react faster, so that
new locale is usable at least by all debian derived distro, is it?

Abel


> You "compile" the locale using the localedef utility, and start using it
> by setting the LANG or LC_ALL environment variable, as described in
> gettext's ABOUT-NLS file.
>
> Then you can already start creating localised PO files, "compile" them
> using msgfmt, and install them in the locations (typically
> /usr/share/locale/... or /usr/local/share/locale/...) where the programs
> will expect it.
>
> You should also contact the translation projects (the Free Translation
> Project at http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/, the KDE localization
> project, the GNOME localization project) and register with them, so that
> someone else with the same ideas as you will be aware of your work and
> not make duplicated efforts.
>
> Finally, a small note about "crh": According to
>   http://www.alvestrand.no/pipermail/ietf-languages/2003-May/000969.html
>   http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=crh
> Crimean Turkish is written in Cyrillic script. If you want to provide a
> locale that uses the Latin script for it, you should call it address@hidden;
> if you want to provide a locale that uses the IQTELif script, you should
> call it address@hidden (not address@hidden - the glibc maintainers don't want
> abbreviations here). Even if a "crh" locale with Cyrillic script does
> not yet exist.
>
> Bruno


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