[Libvisual-devel] plugins package now supports i18n support

[Duilio J. P. <dp...@fl...>]

Currently, spanish is the only translation available. Feel free to add
your own. Remember the steps:

- go to 'po' directory, and make 'msginit -l COUNTRY', where COUNTRY is
your two letters country code.
- edit the just created COUNTRY.po file, and translate all the strings
(is highly recommended that you use and UTF-8 codeset for the file).
- add COUNTRY to 'po/LINGUAS' file.
- add COUNTRY to 'LINGUAS' variable on 'configure.ac' file.

That's all. Now the plugins speak you language.

To make use of the i18n support within libvisual-plugins, just put the
string you want to translate on a _() call, i.e :

  printf (_("Hello world!\n"));

*except* for initialization strings, which must be put within a N_()
call. Take into account that initialization strings must be literals,
they cannot be the result of a function call, in order to make gettext
work properly.

Also make sure you have included 'config.h' and 'gettext.h' in the
current file (with config.h *before* gettext.h).

When the Wiki will be ready, I'll post a more complete procedure there.

Bye,
Duilio.