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Re: How to add crh.po, and address@hidden locale's .po for gettext
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Abel Cheung |
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Re: How to add crh.po, and address@hidden locale's .po for gettext |
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Sat, 2 Sep 2006 23:05:50 +0800 |
On 9/2/06, Abel Cheung <address@hidden> wrote:
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?
Sorry for replying myself, I didn't make it very clear in last post.
What I have in mind is, does Ulrich Drepper still behave like this[1]?
If that is the case, I'm afraid it is simply a waste of time.
I also have been thinking about updating zh_hk locale data and
big5hkscs character conversion table as well, but become really
hesitant to do so due to difficulty in discussion.
[1] http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2002-01/msg00251.html
Abel
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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- How to add crh.po, and address@hidden locale's .po for gettext, Reshat Sabiq (Res,at), 2006/09/02
- Re: How to add crh.po, and address@hidden locale's .po for gettext, Bruno Haible, 2006/09/02
- Re: How to add crh.po, and address@hidden locale's .po for gettext, Reshat Sabiq (Res,at), 2006/09/04
- Re: How to add crh.po, and address@hidden locale's .po for gettext, Danilo Ĺ egan, 2006/09/05
- Re: How to add crh.po, and address@hidden locale's .po for gettext, Reshat Sabiq, 2006/09/10
- Re: How to add crh.po, and address@hidden locale's .po for gettext, Denis Barbier, 2006/09/10
- Re: How to add crh.po, and address@hidden locale's .po for gettext, Bruno Haible, 2006/09/11
- Re: How to add crh.po, and address@hidden locale's .po for gettext, Bruno Haible, 2006/09/07
- Re: How to add crh.po, and address@hidden locale's .po for gettext, Reshat Sabiq, 2006/09/11
- Re: How to add crh.po, and address@hidden locale's .po for gettext, Bruno Haible, 2006/09/11
- Re: How to add crh.po, and address@hidden locale's .po for gettext, Reshat Sabiq, 2006/09/12