[Devel] Re: What's the translation status for Freetype?

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > I'm working with Swedish translations in the Free Translation
> > Project (http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/HTML/), and was
> > about to take on freetype.  But then I realised the most recent PO
> > file available there was for version 1.3.1.  That sounds pretty
> > old, there are several releases of version 2 out as I understand
> > things.

Version 2 of FreeType is a complete rewrite and not an extension of
FreeType 1.

> > There doesn't seem to be much point spending my time on
> > translating an old version.  So I thought I'd ask about the status
> > of translations and PO-files in the freetype project.  Why aren't
> > there any more recent PO files available at the translation
> > project?

The most recent version of FreeType will be 1.5 (please contact
Antoine Leca for more details since he is preparing this release) --
note that there is no more development for FT1 except severe bug
fixes or additions to the OpenType support.

FreeType 2 no longer uses gettext support.  Only if FT2 is compiled in
debugging mode (which shouldn't be the default), a macro FT_ERROR
emits messages, and FT_TRACE is used for verbatim tracing.  Otherwise,
only error codes are returned.  Please have a look at fterrors.h to
see how optional error strings are mapped onto the error codes.
During a normal build, no error strings are compiled into the library.
Of course, it is be possible to reintroduce gettext, but I wonder
whether this feature would be used by applications.


  Werner