[gst-devel] gettext stuff

[Thomas Vander Stichele]

After getting VERY acquainted with the wonders of gettext, I cooked up
the most simple tarball that has everything we need in skeletal form.

Main features are:
- it uses autopoint from autogen, so no gettextize mess
- we only keep customizations in cvs, as patches or include files.  the
original gettext files are untouched.
- it shows how lib and app translations aren't the same thing
- it distchecks (if you know what can go wrong with translations :))

I invite everyone to try out this tarball.

Start with
./configure --prefix=/tmp/as-gettext
make
make install
export LANG=fr_FR.utf8
src/test-gettext

and see if it translates into french, with correct UTF-8 for ê

After that, I'd like you to test the autogen integration, so run
make uninstall
./autogen.sh --prefix=/tmp/as-gettext
and the rest is the same.

It is tested on rh73, rh9, debian, and I'm interested in hearing from
sun, gentoo and lfs users :)

If this is ok, I'd like to make gstreamer use the same way of doing
gettext, and after that, we sanitycheck tweaks to its build by first
doing it in the skeletal module.

What do you think ?

Thomas


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