[Scilab-Dev] Re: Localization Scilab / Scipad

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le lundi 30 juin 2008 à 10:23 +0300, Enrico Segre a écrit :
> > At the moment, Scipad and Scilab don't
> > use the same procedure for localization. As a matter of uniformisation
> > and simplification, it would be great if Scipad could switch to
> > gettext. 
> > Basically, this involves to:
> > 	- change the call to the localization process (basically gettext)
> 
> after a quick look, probably what you're asking us is quite painless. We
> do not need to recode anything in scipad, which will continue to use
> msgcat, which is THE way of localizing tcl code. 
Excellent news! I didn't expect this to be that easy.
Thanks for investigate this.

> What you'll be happy
> for us to do is to switch to .po master message files, whereas .msg
> files will be automatically compiled from them. 
Exactly!

> The first one who succeeds in finding the right commands for converting
> po <-> msg tells everybody.
I will try to have a look. I am starting to be a bit familiar with
gettext tools.

Sylvestre