Re: Question about gorm and Multi language support in Gnustep

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

Am Donnerstag, 29.05.03 um 16:01 Uhr schrieb Stéphane PERON:

> Hi all !
>
> I have try a work of french translation.
>
> Many apps are made with gorm and I don't know to make the translation.
>
> Do I have to make a new .gorm for each language ?
> (that means that the maintener has to update as many .gorm file as there are languages supported  .. so if 8 languages are supported, he has to spend 8 more times to release its application !!! )
>
> Please, tell me I am wrong ... ;-)

Under Cocoa it is this way. And since GNUstep is a close relative I think it's the same here. So that means you'll have to maintain as many nibs/gorms as languages you have. 

Since this is a lot of work there is a tool for this under Cocoa: nibtool (http://www.hmug.org/man/1/nibtool.html) This tools reads all localizable strings contained in a nib into a text file so that they can be translated and can create localized nibs from such text files. So in practice you'll have one master nib of which you create all the others.

Now in turn I don't know if such a beast (gormtool?) is available for GNUstep. If not, it would be a good idea to implement.

> Regards 
>
> Stéphane PERON

greetings, Lars

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