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/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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// Name: internationalization
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// Purpose: topic overview
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// Author: wxWidgets team
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// RCS-ID: $Id$
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// Licence: wxWindows license
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/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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/*!
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@page internationalization_overview Internationalization
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Although internationalization of an application (i18n for short) involves far
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more than just translating its text messages to another message - date, time and
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currency formats need changing too, some languages are written left to right
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and others right to left, character encoding may differ and many other things
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may need changing too - it is a necessary first step. wxWidgets provides
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facilities for message translation with its
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#wxLocale class and is itself fully translated into several
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languages. Please consult wxWidgets home page for the most up-to-date
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translations - and if you translate it into one of the languages not done
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yet, your translations would be gratefully accepted for inclusion into future
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versions of the library!
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The wxWidgets approach to i18n closely follows the GNU gettext package. wxWidgets uses the
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message catalogs which are binary compatible with gettext catalogs and this
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allows to use all of the programs in this package to work with them. But note
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that no additional libraries are needed during run-time, however, so you
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have only the message catalogs to distribute and nothing else.
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During program development you will need the gettext package for
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working with message catalogs. @b Warning: gettext versions 0.10 are known
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to be buggy, so you should find a later version of it!
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There are two kinds of message catalogs: source catalogs which are text files
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with extension .po and binary catalogs which are created from the source ones
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with @e msgfmt program (part of gettext package) and have the extension .mo.
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Only the binary files are needed during program execution.
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The program i18n involves several steps:
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Translating the strings in the program text using
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#wxGetTranslation or equivalently the
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#_() macro.
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Extracting the strings to be translated from the program: this uses the
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work done in the previous step because @c xgettext program used for string
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extraction recognises the standard _() as well as (using its @c -k option)
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our wxGetTranslation and extracts all strings inside the calls to these
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functions. Alternatively, you may use @c -a option to extract all the
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strings, but it will usually result in many strings being found which don't
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have to be translated at all. This will create a text message catalog - a .po
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file.
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Translating the strings extracted in the previous step to other
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language(s). It involves editing the .po file.
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Compiling the .po file into .mo file to be used by the program.
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Installing the .mo files with your application in the appropriate
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location for the target system which is the one returned by
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wxStandardPaths::GetLocalizedResourcesDir(wxStandardPaths::ResourceCat_Messages).
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If the message catalogs are not installed in this default location you may
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explicitly use #AddCatalogLookupPathPrefix() to
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still allow wxWidgets to find them but it is strongly recommended to use the
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default directory.
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Setting the appropriate locale in your program to use the strings for the
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given language: see #wxLocale.
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See also the http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html.
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See also @ref nonenglish_overview.
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It focuses on handling charsets related problems.
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Finally, take a look at the @ref sampleinternat_overview which shows
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you how all this looks in practice.
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@b Translating menu accelerators
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If you translate the accelerator modifier names (Ctrl, Alt and Shift) in your menu labels, you may find
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the accelerators no longer work. In your message catalogs, you need to provide individual translations
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of these modifiers from their lower case names (ctrl, alt, shift) so that the wxWidgets accelerator
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code can recognise them even when translated. wxWidgets does not provide translations for all of these
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currently. wxWidgets does not yet handle translated special key names such as Backspace,
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End, Insert, etc.
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*/
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