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/usr/lib/locale/
/usr/share/i18n/locales/
/usr/share/locale/
/usr/share/doc/nls/
/usr/local/share/locale/
/usr/X11R7/lib/X11/locale/
/usr/local/apps/ROX-Filer/Messages/
/usr/share/doc/*/nls/ (***note these are usually for DOTpot or DOTpo files [micko])
/usr/local/*/locals/
/usr/share/*/locale/
/usr/share/*/templates/

Hmm... I have noticed the inconsistency without downloading lupq or wary quickset.

The convention for compiled apps, as long as they are compiled --prefix=/usr, is for the DOTmo files to go in /usr/share/locale/$LANGUAGE_CODE/LC_MESSAGES/${PROGRAM_NAME}.mo

This is where all compiled gettext DOTmo files should go. So if one creates a script and localises it with gettext (which should be the standard) then the main DOTpot file is translated as a ${LANGUAGECODE}.po file then compiled into a $PROGRAM_NAME.mo file which resides where said.

The exception (for the moment) is zigbert's method, which I used in Quickpet. It is basically just reading a special $LANG file in the program's working directory. I guess this is where it get's messy. I have approached zigbert but he is quite busy until the next northern winter.

I suppose what we need to do is apply the standards, that is, everyone who scripts should learn to use gettext and where the locale file should be stored. It's not difficult. Even I roughly learnt some of it!

Cheers!

Zigbert has recently improved his code so that only the first two letters
need to be used

Example: es is used rather than es_MX for
mexican spanish . This avoids the use of all
those links that 01micko used
in quickpet .

I made a puppyhelp application by looking at the code in
Zigbert's pCD application and then I used what I know about
how pmusic is installed.

puppyhelp-1.0.pet
puppyhelp_NLS-1.0.pet


I have no training in programming,
yet I was able to get a functioning program to run.
So Zigbert's method has a lot going for it.

I think that high-level scripting will in the long-run
triumph over languages such as C.
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01micko wrote

I suppose what we need to do is apply the standards, that is, everyone who scripts should learn to use gettext and where the locale file should be stored. It's not difficult. Even I roughly learnt some of it!

+1
And even our PuppyMaster did so, see http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... &start=282 or do a search in his blog.
Note, the keyword is internationalisation or internationalization which is the step to be done before localization.

localization = translating messages, using date, time, paper, ... formats
internationalization = making a programm usable for localization

The standard is well documented here and can be used in puppy shell and BaCon.

Hope that helps, at least helps to let the discussion continue.

Quoted from http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02213

anyone is welcome to submit more translations.

mavrothal wrote:I was trying to localize XOpup in Spanish the other day. Thanks to shinobar's and don570's work on puppy5.2 I had a good start.
Then I realized how much of puppy's UI and P_apps are hard coded in english. Few HUNDREDS distinct fields!!!

All over Xgialogs, gtkdialog3s and gtkdialog-splashes are in English, with no easy way to translate-one-use-everywhere. Eg you can do it for a given build but then with the next one you have to go all over again.
The other issue is, that a lot of P_apps are build in such a way that if you change the string the layout is getting all messed-up.

Yes, this is a major issue. I am guilty of this myself, and only just started looking into it for futureproof apps. As a start point I've purposively used "gettext" throughout my latest app Pcreole, though not worked more on that otherwise.

In terms of internationalisation of applications, the following website is probably of interest for all developers:

http://www.transifex.net/

01micko wrote:...The exception (for the moment) is zigbert's method...

gettext method is official now
and zigbert has his Mission completed

mavrothal
[SOLVED] now. Don't you think ?

L18L wrote:mavrothal
[SOLVED] now. Don't you think ?

I guess.
Although not in the "placing chaos" aspect....

The first post says you needed some translations in Spanish. If at present you still need some, you may be interested in this thread:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76948