Re: [Bashburn-info] hint: add a new dir "i18n"

[Nick W. <ni...@uk...>]

On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:32:18 +0200
Markus Kollmar <mar...@on...> wrote:

> I have currently added  the new directory "i18n" (which means 
> <i>internationalisatio<n>).
> This is for the future bashburn translation system.
> 
> It has a makefile and some files to test and see how the system could
> work. However it is not perfect and in the very beginning. I added
> it, so that someone can look at it if interested.
> It is still in development so take this as info.
> 
> If you want look how it works, examine the makefile.
> "make help" gives also some hints.
> 
> The file "bashburn_test.sh" may be removed in future. It is only for 
> testing purpose.
> The "gettext..." files are wrapper for the gettext system. I have
> this borrowed from the backup-manager project.
> With this it is possible to get the english text even if gettext is
> not supported in the system.
> 
> However I am not shure, how we exactly would do the translation.
> Should we reuse our ".lang" files?
> Or should we remove them and put all in the source code?
> What would be the cleaner solution?

Good stuff, Markus.  This is a great base to start working on this.

Nick
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