Re: i18n/gettext?

[Karl Eichwalder]

address@hidden (Pavel Janík) writes:

>    > François Pinard did some prototyping and these bits are still present in
>    > po-mode.el coming with GNU gettext.
>
> can François prepare some demonstration for us?

Hello François,

may I ask you to lend us your hands?  Can you tell us how to start to
add native language support to Emacs?

Emacs needs `gettext()' to query message catalogs.  This essentially
means you want to line Emacs with GNU libintl (coming with glibc
resp. GNU gettext).

Then

    (gettext :mgs "message" :domain "emacs" :lang "de_DE")

or

    (setenv LANG "de_DE")
    (setenv TEXDOMAIN "emacs")
    (gettext "message")

resp.

    (gettext MSG &optional DOMAIN LANG)

will return the German translation for "message" from the textdomain
"emacs"; usually, those translation are stored in a file like:

    /usr/local/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/emacs.mo

Tools to create .mo files are already available.

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