Re: Internationalization of GLib/GTK+ applications

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Alejandro T. Colombini <atcolombini gmail com> wrote:

Hi,
  I've spent the last days adding i18n to a project I'm working on. I've been looking for some manual or reference that could help me with that task and I've found this very well written and explained document [1].

  The only regret I can think of in that document is that it was written a long time ago, so when I followed the steps it states and got almost everything in place I found some people, in lists and blogs, warning about the usage of the macros used in that document and also about the initialization scripts. So I searched a little more and I've not been able to find nothing like this document updated to how things work nowadays. So that's what I wanted to ask to the list, if there's some updated manual, tutorial or similar about internationalization of Gtk applications. I've found a lot of documentation about translating GNOME and its applications, but almost nothing about external applications (as the one i'm working on).

if you're working in C/C++ then everything that is written there is still 100% applicable (since it does not describe GNOME specific i18n mechanisms - just gettext and its helpers and relatives).

if you want to do a more effective search, the word "gettext" is a more appropriate place to start googling.