Re: I18n-ing a program

[Gary Benson <garyb ee bath ac uk>]

> Gary Benson wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have a program which I have been developing for about a year
> > (http://rcalc.sourceforge.net) and I have had several people offering to
> > translate for me. The problem is I can't figure out all the autoconf/
> > automake stuff; I found a tutorial on http://www.linuxi18n.org/ but it
> > left me just as baffled.
> > 
> > The program is in autoconf's `deep package format' with _() and N_() used
> > throughout the source, so in theory I should be able to add the intl and
> > po directories, edit configure.in and Makefile.am and add the locale
> > bindings at the top of main().
> > 
> > If only it were that simple! Any help at this point would be much
> > appreciated.
> > 
> One thing that often is overlooked is that all files containing
> strings that are marked for translation must contain
> 
> #include <config.h>
> 
> as one of the first includes. Making it the first is common practice
> among most of the GNOME apps in GNOME CVS. Please try this and report
> back if you still don't succeed.
> 
> Cheers
> Kjartan Maraas
> 

The main problem I have is knowing what to put in intl and po and what
lines to put in configure.in and Makefile.am