Re: gengetopt localization

On 03/31/2011 12:24 PM, Marek Rupniewski wrote:
> Hi Lorenzo,
> According to my needs, on the first place I would put the non-configurable
> strings that appear when a program is invoked with -h option (i.e. strings like
> "OPTIONS", "Usage", "Print help and exit", "default=on/off", ...).
> These are the strings that the end-user of a software is exposed to.
>
> Then it would be nice to have localized all doxygen strings(comments) in generated
> cmdline.{c,h} files.
>

mh... localized doxygen strings?  How then can you have them translated 
in different languages?  I mean, doxygen can produce different output 
and handles localization?

cheers
	Lorenzo

> At the the end, I would mention the strings (typically errors) generated by
> gengetopt itself. Actually I don't think that localizing this last group of
> strings is necessary, because only "a software developer" is exposed to these
> strings. One may assume that if a developer knows how to use gengetopt, then
> his/her English is good enough to understand English documentation of gengetopt
> (and to understand errors generated by gengetopt).
>
> As to my help in the development part, I have no experience in using gettext
> framework neither. I've just glanced through its manual. Nevertheless, I think
> I could try to study this manual more carefully and help you in the process of
> i18n/l10n of gengetopt if you wish.
>
> Regards,
> Marek
>
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
>
>> On 03/13/2011 11:26 PM, Marek Rupniewski wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I wonder if there is any chance to have the gengetopt internationalized/localized
>>> in a near future. I mean i18n/l10n of the gengetopt itself by the means of
>>> the gettext framework (and I do not mean any further internationalization of
>>> the generated parsers, which would be a much more complicated goal to achieve).
>>> Let me add that I would be happy to translate all the translatable strings to
>>> Polish, provided that someone mark them (in the sense explained in
>>> http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#Sources
>>> ).
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Marek Rupniewski
>>
>> Hi Merek
>>
>> so you mean the strings (typically errors) generated by gengetopt
>> itself right?
>>
>> actually I've never used gettext, so it might take me some time to
>> implement this feature.
>>
>> Are you willing to take part of this development part?
>>
>> thanks
>> 	Lorenzo



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