[XBoard-devel] i18n patch for XBoard

[A. Alper ATICI]

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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