GNU gettext tools, version 0.10.38

Native Language Support Library and Tools

Edition 0.10.38, 22 May 2001

• 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 The Purpose of GNU gettext
  • 1.2 I18n, L10n, and Such
  • 1.3 Aspects in Native Language Support
  • 1.4 Files Conveying Translations
  • 1.5 Overview of GNU gettext
• 2 PO Files and PO Mode Basics
  • 2.1 Completing GNU gettext Installation
  • 2.2 The Format of PO Files
  • 2.3 Main PO mode Commands
  • 2.4 Entry Positioning
  • 2.5 Normalizing Strings in Entries
• 3 Preparing Program Sources
  • 3.1 Triggering gettext Operations
  • 3.2 How Marks Appear in Sources
  • 3.3 Marking Translatable Strings
  • 3.4 Special Comments preceding Keywords
  • 3.5 Special Cases of Translatable Strings
• 4 Making the PO Template File
  • 4.1 Invoking the xgettext Program
• 5 Creating a New PO File
• 6 Updating Existing PO Files
  • 6.1 Invoking the msgmerge Program
  • 6.2 Translated Entries
  • 6.3 Fuzzy Entries
  • 6.4 Untranslated Entries
  • 6.5 Obsolete Entries
  • 6.6 Modifying Translations
  • 6.7 Modifying Comments
  • 6.8 Details of Sub Edition
  • 6.9 C Sources Context
  • 6.10 Consulting Auxiliary PO Files
  • 6.11 Using Translation Compendiums
• 7 Producing Binary MO Files
  • 7.1 Invoking the msgfmt Program
  • 7.2 The Format of GNU MO Files
• 8 The User's View
  • 8.1 The Current `ABOUT-NLS' Matrix
  • 8.2 Magic for Installers
  • 8.3 Magic for End Users
• 9 The Programmer's View
  • 9.1 About catgets
    • 9.1.1 The Interface
    • 9.1.2 Problems with the catgets Interface?!
  • 9.2 About gettext
    • 9.2.1 The Interface
    • 9.2.2 Solving Ambiguities
    • 9.2.3 Locating Message Catalog Files
    • 9.2.4 How to specify the output character set gettext uses
    • 9.2.5 Additional functions for plural forms
    • 9.2.6 How to use gettext in GUI programs
    • 9.2.7 Optimization of the *gettext functions
  • 9.3 Comparing the Two Interfaces
  • 9.4 Using libintl.a in own programs
  • 9.5 Being a gettext grok
  • 9.6 Temporary Notes for the Programmers Chapter
    • 9.6.1 Temporary - Two Possible Implementations
    • 9.6.2 Temporary - About catgets
    • 9.6.3 Temporary - Why a single implementation
    • 9.6.4 Temporary - Notes
• 10 The Translator's View
  • 10.1 Introduction 0
  • 10.2 Introduction 1
  • 10.3 Discussions
  • 10.4 Organization
    • 10.4.1 Central Coordination
    • 10.4.2 National Teams
      • 10.4.2.1 Sub-Cultures
      • 10.4.2.2 Organizational Ideas
    • 10.4.3 Mailing Lists
  • 10.5 Information Flow
• 11 The Maintainer's View
  • 11.1 Flat or Non-Flat Directory Structures
  • 11.2 Prerequisite Works
  • 11.3 Invoking the gettextize Program
  • 11.4 Files You Must Create or Alter
    • 11.4.1 `POTFILES.in' in `po/'
    • 11.4.2 `configure.in' at top level
    • 11.4.3 `config.guess', `config.sub' at top level
    • 11.4.4 `aclocal.m4' at top level
    • 11.4.5 `acconfig.h' at top level
    • 11.4.6 `Makefile.in' at top level
    • 11.4.7 `Makefile.in' in `src/'
• 12 Concluding Remarks
  • 12.1 History of GNU gettext
  • 12.2 Related Readings
• A Language Codes
• B Country Codes

This document was generated on 23 May 2001 using the texi2html translator version 1.51.