[Bug-freedink] Re: New version of GNU FreeDink

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi!

> > - i18n ("internationalization") - or support for translating D-Mods.
> 
> Unfortunately here I have an issue. The .mo files, which are created
> and installed are
> 
> /usr/share/locale/<locale>/LC_MESSAGES/freedink-gnulib.mo

These are translations related to gnulib, the base POSIX layer that
FreeDink uses.

There's also:
  /usr/share/locale/<locale>/LC_MESSAGES/freedink.mo
with base engine messages (error messages, etc.).
This one is in progress and hasn't many translations yet.

> But then later dink searches in a different directory
> 
> # LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 strace -f dink
> [...]
> open("/usr/share/dink/dink/l10n/de_DE.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/dink.mo", O_RDONLY) = 
> -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> open("/usr/share/dink/dink/l10n/de_DE.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/dink.mo", O_RDONLY) = 
> -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> open("/usr/share/dink/dink/l10n/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/dink.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 
> ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> open("/usr/share/dink/dink/l10n/de.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/dink.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 
> ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> open("/usr/share/dink/dink/l10n/de.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/dink.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 
> ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> open("/usr/share/dink/dink/l10n/de/LC_MESSAGES/dink.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 
> ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> 
> so no translations are available. :-( Any ideas what's going wrong
> during install?

These are game dialogs translations, searched at run time in the
'l10n' subfolder of the D-Mod that the user plays (in this case, the
main game).

A French, Dutch and Macedonian translations are in progress and will
be included in the next 'freedink-data' release :)

There is a German translation around, but:
- I was told (and also think) it's not top quality
- It was developed by Iridon Interactive to sell the game back in 1997
  so RTsoft probably doesn't own the rights.
(So the best way is to join http://translationproject.org/team/de.html :))

These translations are specific to the game being played, and distinct
from the base engine translations above. The goal is that people can
distribute translations for any D-Mod separately (for example, here's
a Mystery Island French translation
http://dink-translation.beuc.net/dmods/island-fr.po). Of course it
only make sense to advertise them when the i18n'd engine is released
and deployed :)

-- 
Sylvain