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[Bug translator/3823] internationalize the thing


http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3823

Frank Ch. Eigler <fche at redhat dot com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Frank Ch. Eigler <fche at redhat dot com> 2011-02-12 21:23:01 UTC ---
Good start so far.  A bunch more todos:

* get staprun/stapio and the compile-server binaries to use gettext()
* define the _() macro conditionally, based on ENABLE_NLS, so if !ENABLE_NLS,
  we don't make any gettext calls at all
* examine the runtime/* code (apart from runtime/staprun), to move any embedded
  english strings to the translator.  It can emit #define MSG_FOO _("msg")
  translated strings for it, which the runtime can use via those MSG_* macros.
* write up a little po/README file, outlining how developers ought regenerate
  the i18n data, especially the po/POTFILES.in filename list, the po/LINGUAS
  language list, and "make -C po update-po".
* hand-create a fake translation for some random language for some messages,
  to test its handling of LANG != en*
* open new bugs against the compile-server and the remote-execution widget
  to pass (carefully!) the LC_*/LANG* variables to their network peers.
* invite the fedora translator project (?) to take a whack at 
* investigate whether any shell scripts we ship (dtrace, initscripts) could
  also benefit from gettextizing their text messages
* announce it in the NEWS

Some of these can be deferred to later bugs.

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