niceSOFT/diffutils

LOCALIZE
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Paul Eggert
Initial revision
13 сен 1998, 09:18
13 сен 1998, 09:1878a9744
Localization
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This software package can output messages in languages other than its
default (which is typically English).  To operate in this way, you need
translation catalogs for the locales you want to support.

By convention, a locale's name is the lower-case two-letter ISO 639
code for the name of the locale's language.  See
<ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/doc/ISO/ISO-639-summary> for a list of
language codes.  Here are some example names of locales:

	de	German
	en	English
	es	Spanish
	fr	French
	ja	Japanese
	ru	Russian
	zh	Chinese

For a locale with territorial variants, an underscore and the
capitalized two-letter ISO 3166 territory code is appended to the
locale name.  See <ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/doc/ISO/ISO-3166-summary>
for a list of territory codes.  Here are some example names of locales
that are particular to territories:

	de_CH	German in Switzerland
	en_UK	English in the United Kingdom
	en_US	English in the United States
	fr_BE	French in Belgium
	fr_CA	French in Canada
	fr_CH	French in Switzerland
	zh_TW	Chinese in Taiwan

If the `message' directory does not have a translation catalog for your
locale L, you can write one by copying `message/template.po' to
`message3/L.po' and then editing each `msgstr' entry in the copy until
it is a faithful translation of the preceding `msgid' entry.

  * You can omit a msgid-msgstr pair if the two entries are identical.
  This is commen in en_* locales.

  * Be careful about msgstr entries that contain `printf'-style formats,
  e.g. "%s: invalid option -- %c\n"; your translations must have
  formats for exactly the same arguments, otherwise the program may
  behave incorrectly.  Your C library should support formats like
  `%2$s' to let you reorder the arguments; if not, your translations
  must format the arguments in the same order as the originals.