[GRASSLIST:5982] Re: A simple method to start GRASS with a new language

[Lorenzo Moretti]

Hi Markus

>On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 05:49:30PM +0100, Lorenzo Moretti wrote:
>>  Hi all
>>
>>  This is a little method to start GRASS with a different language than
>>  default
>>
>>  The language now is only for commands and message not for menu and
>>  it's not complete... (only de thank to Markus)
>>
>>  Edit the startup file with name grass60 with your text editor.
>>  Example in 6.0.cvs:
>>  in Unix/CygWin the file is /usr/local/grass-6.0.cvs/grass60
>>  in OSX-X11 the file is
>>  /Applications/Grass/grass60cvs.app/Contents/Resources/grass-6.0.cvs/grass60
>>  in OSX-Aqua the file is
>>  /Applications/Grass/grass60cvs.app/Contents/Resources/grassx-6.0.cvs/grass60
>>
>>  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..)
>
>
>Please note that translated messages only appear *if they were translated*!
>To see the statistics:
>
>  http://grass.itc.it/devel/i18n.php#statistics
>
>I recall that people wondered about Italian. Looking at the stats
>you can see that
>PO-Files	Translated	Fuzzy	Untranslated
>grassmods_it.po	153	24	704
>grasslibs_it.po	56	352	21
>
>
>most messages are not yet translated in this language.
>
>>  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.
>
>We'll have to merge the msgcat stuff from GRASS 5.0-i18N into
>the new display manager. This requires a person knowing tcl/tk
>as many things have changed. The old source code is available
>at
>  http://www.foss4g.org/
>
>It's probably a work of 1-3 hours to integrate the msgcat support.
>Then translations could also start for d.m and nviz.
>
>Volunteer needed!
>
>Markus

I can help you about Italian (I have already translated GIS Manager menu).

Bye

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