Re: Language Support
Thanks.
That ckeared up a few things. I've discovered the GNU translation projects and notive they have quite an extensive way to handle translations.
But for embedded systems that solution seem to be a memory grabber. Is this the system used for embedded systems?
I've tried to set the gettext up to do a demo but it didn't work and I couldn't find any docs indicating what I'll need and some steps to atleast get some hello-world translation. I have questions like What's a domain? What's bindtextdomain? do I run xgettext on the host for the platform?
It seem so convoluted and maybe someone could point me to a good intro page, or better suggest a simple approach for embedded systems.
Much thanks,
Robbie
--- On Wed 01/11, William J Beksi < wjbeksi@setabox.com > wrote:
From: William J Beksi [mailto: wjbeksi@setabox.com]
To: sheriff@excite.com
Cc: debian-embedded@lists.debian.org
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 10:48:32 +0800
Subject: Re: Language Support
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Robbie wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to understand how language support works. I just have a few small questions.
> What's the purpose of the languages in the kernel? It is for kernel messages or for user level programs?
I believe the main purpose of language support in the kernel is to allow
filenames to be displayed in the user's native language. User space
programs use the locale settings to determine what language to print
their messages in.
> Say I use truetype fonts and want to display spanish and english texts, at what point does the translation occurs?
Again, this is determined by your locale setting.
> Do I have to manually determing the fonts to be used?
Fonts is a different issue. Fonts are loaded by X, in order, according
to your X configuration file (xorg.conf).
> Or do I just use Unicode and use some traslation routine?
I think it is best if you use a UTF-8 encoding for your native language.
> Thanks for your help.
Your welcome.
William
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