More information on localisation issue

[Lourembam Lenin <leninlou gmail com>]

Hi Chris,

   Thanks for reply. But still i have same problem. I am giving more
information on what i have done so far down against your statement.

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> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:53:15 +0000
> From: Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk>
> To: Lourembam Lenin <leninlou gmail com>
> Cc: gtk-app-devel-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: Localization issues
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> 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.  Bind to a more sensible name
> instead.
>
> You might also want to call bind_textdomain_codeset() depending on what
> codeset you are using.

@Chris: I had done calling bind_textdomain_codeset() as

 bind_textdomain_codeset ("main", "UTF-8");

> For managing your translation files, I should use intltools.

I am including the following headers here:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <libintl.h>
#include <locale.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <config.h>

> Chris
>
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> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:58:18 +0000
> From: Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk>
> To: Lourembam Lenin <leninlou gmail com>
> Cc: gtk-app-devel-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: Localization issues
> Message-ID: <20101230105818 2ebdf04a laptop homenet>
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> 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.

I am using sudo cp command for copying to '/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES'
location

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