Re: [help-gengetopt] gengetopt localization

[Lorenzo Bettini]

On 03/31/2011 12:24 PM, Marek Rupniewski wrote:
> Hi Lorenzo,
> According to my needs, on the first place I would put the non-configurable
> strings that appear when a program is invoked with -h option (i.e. strings like
> "OPTIONS", "Usage", "Print help and exit", "default=on/off", ...).
> These are the strings that the end-user of a software is exposed to.
>
> Then it would be nice to have localized all doxygen strings(comments) in 
> generated
> cmdline.{c,h} files.

mh... localized doxygen strings?  How then can you have them translated 
in different languages?  I mean, doxygen can produce different output 
and handles localization?

cheers
        Lorenzo

> At the the end, I would mention the strings (typically errors) generated by
> gengetopt itself. Actually I don't think that localizing this last group of
> strings is necessary, because only "a software developer" is exposed to these
> strings. One may assume that if a developer knows how to use gengetopt, then
> his/her English is good enough to understand English documentation of gengetopt
> (and to understand errors generated by gengetopt).
>
> As to my help in the development part, I have no experience in using gettext
> framework neither. I've just glanced through its manual. Nevertheless, I think
> I could try to study this manual more carefully and help you in the process of
> i18n/l10n of gengetopt if you wish.
>
> Regards,
> Marek
>
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
>
> > On 03/13/2011 11:26 PM, Marek Rupniewski wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I wonder if there is any chance to have the gengetopt 
> > > internationalized/localized
> > > in a near future. I mean i18n/l10n of the gengetopt itself by the means of
> > > the gettext framework (and I do not mean any further internationalization of
> > > the generated parsers, which would be a much more complicated goal to achieve).
> > > Let me add that I would be happy to translate all the translatable strings to
> > > Polish, provided that someone mark them (in the sense explained in
> > > http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#Sources
> > > ).
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > > Marek Rupniewski
> >
> > Hi Merek
> >
> > so you mean the strings (typically errors) generated by gengetopt
> > itself right?
> >
> > actually I've never used gettext, so it might take me some time to
> > implement this feature.
> >
> > Are you willing to take part of this development part?
> >
> > thanks
> >         Lorenzo



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