Re: Localization issues

[Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk>]

On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:53:15 +0000
Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk> wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 17:11:47 +0530
> Lourembam Lenin <leninlou gmail com> wrote:
> > I have a text in English which i want to convert it into French.
> >
> > The sequence that i followed are as under:
> >
> >    1. generate all the text using xgettext command in terminal,
> > creating .pot file
> >    2. creating .po file from .pot file
> >    3. creating .mo file from .po file
> >
> > I have copy the .mo file in "/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES"
> >
> > here is my code for main.c file:
> >
> > int main()
> >
> > {
> >
> >     setlocale(LC_ALL,"");
> >     bindtextdomain("main","/usr/share/locale");
> >     textdomain("main");
> >     printf( gettext("Hello world\n"));
> >     return (0);
> > }
> >
> > But when i execute the program, french version is not printed on
> > terminal after changing the language to french.
>
> You shouldn't copy your po file by hand: if your program is
> gettextize'd then 'make install' will do it for you, with the correct
> name.  In your case, if you were to copy it by hand you would need to
> name it main.po, which is a very odd name.

Correction: that is main.mo of course, copied from your gmo file.

Chris