Re: [XBoard-devel] i18n patch for XBoard

[Tim Mann]

Thanks!  I confess I didn't find time to look at your patch yet, but
since you and Leonardo have both worked on it now and like it, I'm sure
there will be no problem accepting it, so please go ahead and start the
process to assign the copyright in your changes to the FSF, if you
haven't done so already.  I'll try to look at it soon.

It's great to see so much happening on the project already!

Best regards,
--Tim

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 23:17:41 +0200, "A. Alper ATICI" <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I regret I don't make lengthy introductions of myself, 
> but, hey, I've made a lengthy patch for you!
> It adds internationalization support to XBoard, and
> available for your testing at the following locations:
> 
> http://web.ttnet.net.tr/alperatici/xbrd.diff.gz
> http://www.geocities.com/alper_atici/xbrd.diff.gz
> 
> Please note the following:
> 
> 1. It's against v4.2.7 tarball.
> 2. WinBoard i18n is not there yet.
> 3. I've opted for a minimally intrusive patch, 
> so it's not necessarily elegant, ultimate, etc.
> but it works on my Fedora Linux setup.
> 
> 4. Gettext support (runtime+tools) is supposed to be available
> on your platform (there's no intl subdir).
> 
> 5. If you have trouble applying patches, cd to original sources'
> directory and run:
>       zcat ../xbrd.diff.gz | patch -p1
> assuming the patch file resides in parent dir.
> 
> 6. After having applied it, you must run autoconf.
> 7. Before running ./configure && make , create your language.po
> file and add your 2-letter language code to po/LINGUAS file.
> For example, to add Turkish catalogue I'd run the following:
>       msginit -i po/xboard.pot -o po/tr.po -l tr_TR
> then translate strings in tr.po, and add tr into LINGUAS, which
> has currently a single comment line in it. 
> 
> 8. My acquaintance with XBoard is not older than a week, so
> I might have missed strings, or marked ones not supposed to be
> (esp. in backend.c). I'm also remotely familiar with Autotools,
> let alone Xlib/Xt. You're warned.
> 
> 9. Everything this patch adds can be skipped if you pass
> disable-nls option to configure script.
> 
> 10. And last, but not least, this work is NOT public domain.
> I intend to transfer rights to FSF if/when it gets accepted.
> 
> best regards,
> A. Alper ATICI
> 
> -- 
> 
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