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Re: lynx-dev Re: your mail
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: lynx-dev Re: your mail |
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Fri, 10 Nov 2000 05:51:09 -0500 |
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 10:11:31AM +0530, SreePriya. G wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Thomas Dickey wrote:
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> > > It would be nice if anyone can give some insights into
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> > > =>the process of providing such a local language support for lynx.
> > >
> > > 1. the interface
> > > 2. the error messages
> >
> > we've only looked at gettext (though there is Linux console font support,
> > it's used in Lynx for rendering the display, not for the messages).
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> What does the gettext do exactly and how does one go about using it for a
> new language?
gettext replaces at runtime messages that the developers compile into
a library - it allows replacement of the strings.
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