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

[Tim Mann]

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.
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> Josh
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> On Oct 3, 2014, at 1:55 AM, Joshua Pettus <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> 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
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