Developing Multilingual Applications
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The document discusses developing multilingual apps and localization. It covers internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) basics like handling different languages and encodings. It demonstrates marking translatable strings in code and the process of building locales. Localization is defined as implementing a specific language for an already internationalized software by adapting it to a given culture. Steps for localizing free and open source software like building the environment and merging translations are outlined. The document also briefly mentions opportunities for contributing to localization efforts.
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Developing Multilingual Applications
- 1. Developing Multilingual Apps G Karunakar Project Coordinator
- 2. Agenda I18n & l10n basics Demo simple app in C Demo/walkthrough for l10n process
- 3. I18n basics Potentially handle multiple languages, customs in the world Displaying characters for the users' native languages. Inputing characters for the users' native languages. Handling popular encodings for the users' native languages. Native characters for file names and other items. Printing . Displaying messages in users' native languages. Character classification & sorting. Typesetting and hyphenation rules.
- 4. The model Define locales Original source -> gettext'ization Mark translatable strings Rebuild application
- 5. You need to Call following in main() setlocale (LC_ALL, ""); bindtextdomain (PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR); textdomain (PACKAGE); Mark strings like printf(_("Hello World\n")); char mesg[] = N_(“Hello World\n”);
- 6. Demo Building locales Changing Locale environment Locale demo app in gtk
- 7. Localization Implementation of a specific language for an already internationalized software. Adapting a program to a given culture Cultural Parameters Language rules Script – character set Date , time , currency Graphics & IconsClick to add an outline
- 8. L10nizing FOSS Build environment configure.in / potfiles.in Intltool-update Merge translation Check translation Install test
- 9. Contributing! Indic spellchecking Aspell based Morphological analyser based Needs testing Translation framework Translation management Translation memory Online translation Pootle backend+entrans+ajax web i/f Python, Web, Ajax, SQL
- 10. Other activities Padma php library uni.medhas.org Indic convertors