Re: Adding I18N support to ATK

[Karl Eichwalder <keichwa gmx net>]

Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm@commsecure.com.au> writes:

> The method you have used is designed to force glib-gettextize to be
> used, which is probably a bit safer in the long wrong; the generic
> method will run gettextize if glib-gettextize is not found and this has
> "interesting" (a.k.a. annoying) side-effects for gettext-0.11.

gettext now comes with a new feature called "autopoint" said to work
around the gettextize issues.  By now I didn't bother to figure out how
it is considered to work; it's still on my agenda.

> If you don't have AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT run, you need to remove
> po/Makefile.in from AC_OUTPUT and not have po in SUBDIRS in the
> top-level Makefile.am. However, from looking at your code, you seem to
> be getting away with an empty ALL_LINGUAS string. So it's possible that
> something has changed there (it used to explode spectacularly).

Probably, that's not what you are talking about, but I like to point
out again gettext moved away from ALL_LINGUAS; now you can list
available translations in po/LINGUAS.

Thanks for working on the i18n issues!

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