[GRASSLIST:5980] Re: A simple method to start GRASS with a new language

[Michael Barton]

I'm running a conference right and so rather frantic.

I can help with this a bit later--after this week. There is really only a
couple files with text in them that need to be translated I believe.

Michael
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> From: Lorenzo Moretti <lorenzo.moretti at bologna.enea.it>
> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 11:00:51 +0100
> To: Hamish <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com>
> Cc: <GRASSLIST at baylor.edu>
> Subject: [GRASSLIST:5961] Re: A simple method to start GRASS with a new
> language
> 
> Hi Hamish
> 
>>> 
>>>  At the beginning (row 23) before trap command add one row (in this
>>>  example de language)
>>> 
>>>  export LANG=de_DE
>>> 
>>>  Substitute de_DE with your language (cs_CS, es_ES, fr_FR, it_IT,
>>>  etc..)
>>> 
>>>  after save and start Grass.
>>> 
>>>  In future will be possible to translate Michael Barton' GIS Manager
>>>  (d.m.tcl and menu.tcl) with an if for the choice.
>> 
>> 
>> Isn't it easier/better to put this in ~/.grass.bashrc or ~/.grass.cshrc?
>> 
>> Or does that not work?
>> 
>> Hamish
> 
> I think that grass60 file is more easy to find for many users versus
> an invisible file like .grass.bashrc or .grassrc6... but all is
> possible.
> This variable would be enter automatically analyzing in Init.sh file
> a global preferences file: the user start GRASS with the language
> equal to his system language setting: it's more transparent.
> 
> Now with the i18n translation Grass 6 goes to the all users but the
> i18n is limited to commands and lib message. I want to add the GIS
> Manager translation. The folder is etc/dm with more than 10 files
> .tcl.
> 
> What is the best method?
> 
> These are ASCII files.
> I've tried an if statment in /scripts/d.m file.
> After it opens d.m_language.tcl file and it start with new translated
> menu (example):
> 
> if [ "$LANG" = "it_IT" ] ; then
> exec "$GRASS_WISH" "$GISBASE/etc/dm/d.m_it.tcl" "$GIS_OPT_dmrc"
> else
> exec "$GRASS_WISH" "$GISBASE/etc/dm/d.m.tcl" "$GIS_OPT_dmrc"
> fi
> 
> 
> But there is locale folder: is it better to open a locale folder like this?
> 
> exec "$GRASS_WISH" "$GISBASE/locale/$LANGUAGE/dm/d.m.tcl" "$GIS_OPT_dmrc"
> 
> 
> Any language has (example):
> 
> locale
>      |__ it
>           |__ LC_MESSAGES
>           |__ dm
> 
> 
> It's a big work but the new GIS Manager is very good (thank Michael)
> and I think that with i18n commands translation GRASS 6 is more easy.
> 
> 
> Or a method more simple.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Bye
> 
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