LYNX-DEV I18N work to submit (fwd)

[Klaus Weide]

Dear Robert Cormier,

  I am forwarding below a message that was sent to the
<address@hidden> mailing list.

To give you some context for this message, folks at SCO have been
working on internationalization of lynx for a while, this was
announced on the lynx-dev list.  Note that they are contributing their
work back to all for free use (in accordance with the GNU Public 
Licence for the Lynx code).

I became aware of the Chebucto Community Net's efforts in the same
direction only recently, more by accident.  I have since then browsed
through the pages at <http://http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/> and the
mailing list archives at <http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Services/MailList/>.
It appears you have, together with others, put a lot of work and love
for detail into translating the Lynx messages and screens (among other
things).

So the purpose of this mail is basically to make you aware of each
other's efforts (if necessary), and encourage you to work together if
possible, to avoid unnecessary duplication of work.  I have not seen
the CSuite's Lynx code or the SCO changes, so I don't know how much
they diverge, or whether maybe in one of them internationalization
goes farther etc., or what other kinds of changes are in the CSuite
Lynx.  But it seems that Chebucto's code is based on an earlier
version ("2.7ac-0.36") of the development code (maintained by me and
other volunteers openly in connection with the lynx-dev list).  So I
assume that a lot of the French messages could be used for the
localization of the code contributed by SCO.


        Klaus


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Message-ID: <address@hidden>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 11:58:15 -0400
From: Yaping Chen <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Subject: LYNX-DEV I18N work to submit
Reply-To: address@hidden

I have finished the code work of lynx-I18N for SCO. We are going to
tranlate the message catalog to other languages, such as French,
German, Japanese, Italian, Spanish and etc.

The lynx version I based on is lynx2-7-1 plus fotemods-July 21.
With the I18N work, to use different languages you do not need to
compile the message catalog with the code, but to set the 
LC_MESSAGES environment variable to whatever language you want.
I suggest this change is included in general distribution.

The code changes mostly are separated from the current code.
I created two new files: LYMessages.h and src/GetMessages.c
Other changes are small, which include these files: userdefs.h,
src/LYMain.c, src/Makefile, src/LYUtils.c. I am going to send
these files here in my next mail unless I get some other 
suggestions.

New message catalog named as lynx.msg will be translated latter.
If anyone have old version message catalog in any other languages,
please send me the URL. We will try not to do the repeated job.
After we finish the work we will send you back the complete ones.
Please also make it accessible so that I can get them. Thank you
in advance!

We also translated the lynx.man to lynx.man.html. I am sending
you this file here in case some people want to have it.

I have a question about using "lynx -dump". We plan to use this
as the html2acsii filter in the man command for our man page 
documents in html format. The problem I have is the highlights 
are gone. Does anyone have solution for this? I can send you the
shell script html2ascii, which calls "lynx -dump" if you need.


Yaping

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