Translations for locally installed modules.

HOWTO:

  1)  In your module file add the following code after the #include
      of <module.h>:

	//<locale-token project="myproject">LOCALE</locale-token>
	//<locale-token project="myproject">DLOCALE</locale-token>
	#define LOCALE(X,Y)	_STR_LOCALE("myproject",X,Y)
	#define DLOCALE(X,Y)	_DEF_LOCALE("myproject",X,Y)

      After the above definitions, you can use

	LOCALE(0, "String to localize")

      for strings that must be immediately translated, and

	DLOCALE(0, "String to localize")

      for strings that may have deferred translation (eg
      variable documentation).

  2)  Add the following lines to the beginning of create() in your
      module:

	Locale.register_project("myproject",
	                        combine_path(__FILE__,
	                                     "../../translations/%L/myproject.xml"));

      Note: You need to specify the correct number of ../ to get
            to the translations directory.

  3)  Create a project description xml file in the configs directory
      specifying the files that are part of your module:

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>

	<project name="myproject">
	  <nocopy />
	  <baselang>eng</baselang>
	  <xmlpath>%L/myproject.xml</xmlpath>
	  <file>../modules/myproject.pike</file>
	</project>

      Note: The file names are specified relative to the translations
            directory.

      Note: The path specified in <xmlpath> must correspond to the one
            in register_project() above in step 2.

      Note: The directory for the language specified in <baselang> must
            exist before the next step.

  4)  Now you can actually generate the translation template files.
      On Unix, Linux and MacOS X, you simply run make:

	make

      On NT you will have to invoke the extractor by hand:

        ../../ntstart --silent-start --cd "%PWD%" --program -x extract_locale --config="configs/myproject.xml" --wipe --sync

  5)  To make an initial translation, create an empty translation file
      for that language or copy the default language file, and rerun
      the command in step 4.
      On Unix, Linux and MacOS X:

	mkdir ger
	touch ger/myproject.xml
	make

      On NT:

	mkdir ger
	copy eng/myproject.xml ger
        ../../ntstart --silent-start --program -x extract_locale --config="%PWD%/myproject.xml" --wipe --sync

      Note: Language catalogs are named according to ISO 639-2/T. To get
            a list valid of ISO 639-2/T codes you can execute:

	../../start --silent-start --program \
	  -e 'write("%O", Standards.ISO639_2.list_languages_t());'

  6)  To update the translation files, simply rerun the command in step 4.
      Strings that need to be translated will be marked with <new/>.

$Id: README,v 1.3 2005/03/23 12:34:48 grubba Exp $
