First set of language packs out for testing

[Martin Pitt]

Hi Danilo!

Danilo Segan [2005-01-17 22:00 +0100]:
> Today at 19:39, Martin Pitt wrote:
> 
> > - sudo apt-get install language-support-<yourlanguage>; after this,
> >   all hoary/main applications should have <yourlanguage> translations
> >   again. If you don't want the dependencies (OO.o, Mozilla, etc.
> >   locale packs), just install language-pack-<yourlanguage>-update
> >   instead.
> 
> Does this integrate translations that go into XML files, GConf
> schemas, and .desktop files (and other similar intltool-merged
> stuff)? 

Not right now. In the future it would be nice to accomodate all kinds
of translations into the language packs, but right now (i. e. for
Hoary) this is confined to gettext translations and per-language
dependencies.

> The simplest way would be to have all localisable content (eg. source
> .xml.in, .schemas.in, .desktop.in, .server.in files) in this
> language-pack, and msgunfmt all existing MO's (on the system,
> basically /usr/share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/package.mo) for this
> software, and re-merge them with intltool-merge.  This would imply
> having intltool-merge installed as user/admin tool (part of the base
> system), instead of only as build tool.

We are still discussing a good approach to handle the more tricky
parts like translating .desktop files. However, I will take a look at
intltool-merge.

Thanks!

Martin

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