Re: Gettext

[Tristan Van Berkom <tvb gnome org>]

Matias Torres wrote:

> Hi all!
> Yes, I know it's not a GTK question but i couldn't find an answer to my 
> problem.
>
> After building my application (if it helps, it uses gtk), i use gettext 
> for translating it, and, in linux it works just fine. But, talking about 
> windows, well .. it doesn't..
>
> Note: Gtk Widgets DO translate, but the my own text doesn't.
>
> This is what i do:
>    ......
> #include <gtk/gtk/h>
> #include <libintl.h>
>    ......
> #define PACKAGE "xiliunsystem"
> #define LOCALEDIR "po"
>    ......
> void nls_init (void)
> {
>    /* SHOULD I CALL gtk_set_locales(), WHERE?  */
>    setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
>    bindtextdomain (PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
>    textdomain (PACKAGE);
>    bind_textdomain_codeset (PACKAGE, "UTF-8");
> }
>
> int main ( ... )
> {
>    nls_init ();
>    gtk_init (&argc, &argv);
>    ....
>    return 0;
> }
>
>
> The message catalogs are in a subfolder in the main app dir called po 
> which looks something like this:
>
> myAppDir/po/es/LC_MESSAGES/
>
> In there there's a myapp.mo file compile with "msgfmt.EXE"
>
> Does anybody knows what's wrong or run into this problem?
>
> Please, Thanks and I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry i 
> konw it's not a gtk question.
>  
A wild guess - maybe #include <glib-i18n.h> ?

also, is all that stuff in nls_init() really needed ?

Cheers,
                          -Tristan