Re: Creating a New locale

[F Wolff <friedel translate org za>]

Op Di, 2009-01-20 om 09:55 +0100 skryf Fanen Ahua:
> Hi,
> I'm interested in translating a few applications to my language "Tiv".
> It's ISO code is also "tiv". I've had some help thus far from
> tthurman, and the only thing left for me to do is to test my
> translation.
> 
> However, when i run rhythmbox with 
> 
> 
> LANG=tiv LC_ALL=tiv shell/rhythmbox
> 
> I get a few errors: 
> (process:25568): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
> 
> (lt-rhythmbox:25568): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
> 	Using the fallback 'C' locale.
> 
> (lt-rhythmbox:25568): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
> 
> The app doesn't appear translated afterwards.
> 
> Any help on how to resolve this would be appreciated.
> 

Hallo Fanen Ahua, and welcome to the world of localisation. The warnings
indicate that your system don't yet have the most basic information
about your language to allow you to install translations. This is called
a locale, and you can read more about it here: 


http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/guide/locales/glibc


If you want to test your translations, you can "cheat", by installing it
into another language code that you are not interested in. If you
install the Zulu locale, for example, you can just copy your mo files
into the correct place for Zulu translations and set your system to
Zulu. This way you can test your translation before you have a proper
locale installed for tiv.

Keep well
Friedel

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