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

[Joshua Pettus]

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