Re: [XBoard-devel] Gettext localization will work with the osx app!

[Joshua Pettus]

I see, it’s a form of Cantonese.  I could attempt to make a folder for that.  
Can’t tell you how useable that would be. :)
Google Translate doesn’t have it.  I found this site though:

http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/scripts/wordsearch.php?level=0



On Oct 4, 2014, at 9:39 PM, Tim Mann <address@hidden> wrote:

> For what it's worth, a little googling tells me that zh_HK is Hong Kong 
> Chinese.
> 
> On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Joshua Pettus <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Even if we cant get the code in for 4.8, I kinda would still like to have 
>> localization in the app bundle for the release, if that’s ok.
>> 
>> Josh
>> 
>> On Oct 3, 2014, at 1:55 AM, Joshua Pettus <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Harm,
>>> 
>>> I wanted to let you know that I can have gettext working in the mac app.  
>>> Turns out, all we needed was to compile xboard with NLS and we were good.  
>>> Xboard of course checks the LOCALEDIR which is originally set to 
>>> /usr/local/share/locale in the makefile.  I was hoping we could hardcode it 
>>> for the Xboard.app to be DataDir/Contents/Resources/share/locale in a way 
>>> similar to what we did with SVGDIR.
>>> 
>>> There was an extra hurdle regarding the gtkmacintegration library with the 
>>> Application (Xboard) menu, which requires to be localized separately by 
>>> OSX.  Namely a bunch of language.lproj folders with 
>>> Gtkosxapplication.strings files in the app’s resource folder with each 
>>> string for the menu items.  On the gtk-osx-users-list email list we managed 
>>> to squash a library bug stoping this from working for us properly.  I also 
>>> updated those .string files that came with the library accordingly, so we 
>>> now have a matching language folder for every language we have with 
>>> gettext. Except for zh_HK, which I have no idea what that is.
>>> 
>>> There is one more problem though.  “About Xboard” was moved from the help 
>>> menu to the Xboard menu. John Ralls said that moved menu items need to be 
>>> handled by gettext, but for some reason this is never translated by 
>>> gettext.  Anything we can do to restore this?
>>> 
>>> Thanks!
>>> Josh Pettus
>> 
>>