Re: [XBoard-devel] Internationalization question

[A. Alper ATICI]

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 12:46:10PM -0500, Carl Simard wrote:
[...]
> 
> I discover your GNUCHESS.LAN file. So I will add a french
> version of mine. This will be easy and I will send you the french version
> when I finish it. Is this ok for you ? This is an example :
> 
> 010:eng:{Ambiguous Move!}
> 010:ger:{Zug nicht eindeutig!}
> 010:swe:{Tvetydigt drag!}
> 010:fre:{Mouvement ambigu !}
> 
> My second question :
> 
> After the change in GNUCHESS.LAN, wath do I do to use the french version ?
> Cause I don't see a langage menu...
> 

If all you want is to translate xboard/Winboard user interface, then you don't 
need to 
deal with the backend engine(i.e. GnuChess). 

There's currently gettext based localization facility checked into CVS for 
xboard, so 
you can start right away localizing xboard into French. The template file 
resides under 
po directory as xboard.pot, I'd also checked in a tr.po for Turkish. You only 
need to 
supply the related fr.po file.

As for Winboard, there's a pending gettext-RCfile interoperability issue to be 
resolved. 
I'm not aware of any progress, if at all, on this.

regards,

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