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Translation system for Linuxconf

Introduction

Linuxconf is a large software component, full of menus, and dialogs. To be easily translatable, all messages must be extracted from the C++ source code and place into dictionaries which can be translated efficiently. A special set of tools has been designed to achieve this. They are described here.

1. Introduction

2. Principles

2.1 One dictionary per source directory
2.2 The MSG_U macro
2.3 The MSG_B macro
2.4 The MSG_R macro
2.5 The MSG_VERSION macro
2.6 The magic of the MSG_ macros
2.7 The P_MSG_ macros

3. How to use it

3.1 The make msg command and msgscan utility
3.2 The _dict.c file
3.3 The msgcomp utility
3.4 The msgclean utility

4. Usage restriction

5. Recommend usage and convention

5.1 Naming convention for message's ID

6. How to translate

6.1 Go simple
6.2 Organization of the messages directory
6.3 The msgupd utility
6.4 The msgcomp utility

7. Licensing

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