Re: LYNX-DEV LYMessages_en.h translation

[Webmaster Jim]

On Tue, Apr 07, 1998 at 06:27:44PM +0200, Karl Eichwalder wrote:
> "Jim Spath (Webmaster Jim)" <address@hidden> writes:
> |   So, other than saying babelfish doesn't do a good job, what are you
> |   saying?  Can you recommend people who know English and German (I don't)
> |   and have the time to type 650 lines of text properly?
> Please have a look at /ftp.gnu.org:/pub/gnu/ABOUT-NLS (The GNU
> Translation Project) and read François Pinard's homepage at
> http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard/.
> What are the reasons not to 'gettextify' lynx?  David Trueman
> (cf. http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/html/month0197/msg00214.html) has
> done, and a followup to his article seem to say, that using gettext is
> the right way.  Okay, it "bloats" the source, but nowadays this should
> be a problem; if it does not fit on one floppy disk, then use 2 or 3 --
> even tar is able to create multi-volume archives (-M).

That is on the "To Do" page and has been for a while (1). The person
responsible for putting in the chartrans stuff (Klaus Weide) was most
able to do this, but has been unavailable lately. I probably don't have
the coding talent and definitely not the time.

> |   Yes, I am trolling for volunteers.
> If you'll use the gettext tools and the available channels (the
> translation teams at address@hidden, v. ABOUT-NLS), you'll quickly get
> results.  Normally, within days the french (fr) and german (de)
> translations are ready to use; if nobody from the german team will
> volunteer, I promise to provide a german translation.

That sounds great. Discussing the current #define files might be a way
to stir up interest in the "right way".

As long as it works on VMS, Win32, etc...

(1) http://www.slcc.edu/lynx/html/todo-list.html#chartrans
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