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Ruby-Gettext-Package

Ruby-GetText-Package is a Localization(L10n) library and tools which modeled after GNU gettext package.

This library provides to translate original messages to localized messages properly using client-side locale information(environment variable or CGI variable).

And the tools for developers support to create, use, and modify localized message files(message catalogs) easily.

Features

  • Simple APIs(similar GNU gettext)
  • rgettext creates po-files from
    • ruby scripts
    • glade-2 XML file(.glade)
    • ERB file(.rhtml, .erb)
    • ActiveRecord(.rb)
    • Others(with your own parsers)
    • The po-file is compatible to GNU gettext.
  • rmsgfmt creates a mo-file from a po-file. The mo-file is compatible to GNU gettext(msgfmt).
  • textdomain‘s scope is adapt to ruby class/module mechanism.
    • A class/module can have plural textdomains.
    • a message is looked up in its class/module and ancestors.
  • Locale is retrieved from System variables (ENV[‘LANG’], POSIX, Win32)
  • CGI support (gettext/cgi)
    • Locale is retrieved from client informations (HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE, HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET, QUERY_STRING(lang), Cookies(lang)).
  • ERB support (gettext/erb)
  • Ruby on Rails support (gettext/rails)
    • before_init_gettext, init_gettext, after_init_gettext for initializing GetText.
    • ActionController, ActionView, ActionMailer and ActiveRecord are localized in a textdomain.
    • Validation messages in ActiveRecord are localized.
    • The table/field names of ActiveRecord are extracted by rgettext and translated in the application.
    • plugins can have their own textdomains.
    • ActionMailer supports ISO-2022-JP message in ja locale.
  • String%() is extended to use named argument such as "%{foo}" %{:foo => 1}

Requirements

Install

  • gem: 
      ($ su)
   # gem install gettext
  • tar-ball: 
      De-Compress archive and enter its top directory.
  Then type:
  ($ su)
   # ruby setup.rb

You can also install files in your favor directory by supplying setup.rb some options. Try "ruby setup.rb —help".

Usage

If you are end-user of an application which depends on this library, you don‘t need do nothing (See applications documents).

If you are developer of the application which depends on this library,

see: gettext.rubyforge.org/

License

This program is licenced under the same licence as Ruby. (See the file ‘COPYING’.)

  • mo.rb
    • Copyright (C) 2001-2007 Masao Mutoh <mutoh at highwhay.ne.jp>
    • Copyright (C) 2001,2002 Masahiro Sakai <s01397ms at sfc.keio.ac.jp>
  • gettext.rb
    • Copyright (C) 2001-2008 Masao Mutoh <mutoh at highwhay.ne.jp>
    • Copyright (C) 2001,2002 Masahiro Sakai <s01397ms at sfc.keio.ac.jp>
  • rgettext
    • Copyright (C) 2001-2007 Masao Mutoh <mutoh at highwhay.ne.jp>
    • Copyright (C) 2001,2002 Yasushi Shoji <yashi at atmark-techno.com>
  • setup.rb
    • Copyright (C) 2000-2005 Minero Aoki <aamine at loveruby.net>
    • This file is released under LGPL. See the top of the install.rb.
  • Others
    • Copyright (C) 2001-2008 Masao Mutoh <mutoh at highwhay.ne.jp>

Translators

  • Bosnian(bs) - Sanjin Sehic <saserr at gmail.com>
  • Catalan(ca) - Ramon Salvadó <rsalvado at gnuine.com>
  • Chinese(Simplified)(zh_CN) - Yang Bob <bob.yang.dev at gmail.com> (current) 
                                 Yingfeng <blogyingfeng at gmail.com>
  • Chinese(Traditional)(zh_TW)- Yang Bob <bob.yang.dev at gmail.com> (current) 
                                 LIN CHUNG-YI <xmarsh at gmail.com>
  • Croatian(hr) - Sanjin Sehic <saserr at gmail.com>
  • Czech(cs) - Karel Miarka <kajism at yahoo.com>
  • Dutch(nl) - Menno Jonkers <ruby-gettext at jonkers.com>
  • Esperanto(eo) - Malte Milatz <malte at gmx-topmail.de>
  • Estonian(et) - Erkki Eilonen <erkki at itech.ee>
  • French(fr) - David Sulc <davidsulc at gmail.com> (current) 
                                 Laurent Sansonetti <laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com>
  • German(de) - Patrick Lenz <patrick at limited-overload.de> (current) 
                                 Detlef Reichl <detlef.reichl at gmx.org>
                             Sven Herzberg <herzi at abi02.de>
                             Sascha Ebach <se at digitale-wertschoepfung.de>
  • Greek(el) - Vassilis Rizopoulos <damphyr at gmx.net>
  • Hungarian(hu) - Tamás Tompa <tompata at gmail.com>
  • Italian(it) - Marco Lazzeri <marco.lazzeri at gmail.com> 
                                 Gabriele Renzi <surrender_it at yahoo.it>
  • Japanese(ja) - Masao Mutoh <mutoh at highway.ne.jp>
  • Korean(ko) - Gyoung-Yoon Noh <nohmad at gmail.com>
  • Norwegian(nb) - Runar Ingebrigtsen <runar at mopo.no>
  • Portuguese(Brazil)(pt_BR) - Antonio S. de A. Terceiro <terceiro at softwarelivre.org> 
                                 Joao Pedrosa <joaopedrosa at gmail.com> (current)
  • Russian(ru) - Yuri Kozlov <kozlov.y at gmail.com>
  • Spanish(es) - David Espada <davinci at escomposlinux.org> (current)
  • David Moreno Garza <damog at damog.net>
  • Swedish(sv) - Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk at rawuncut.elitemail.org>
  • Ukrainian(ua) - Alex Rootoff <rootoff at pisem.net>
  • Vietnamese(vi) - Ngoc Dao <ngocdaothanh at gmail.com>

Status of translations

  • Bosnian(bs) - 1.90.0
  • Catalan(ca) - 1.90.0
  • Croatian(hr) - 1.90.0
  • Chinese(zh_CN) - 1.90.0
  • Chinese(zh_TW) - 1.90.0
  • Czech(cs) - 1.9.0 (old)
  • Dutch(nl) - 1.90.0
  • English(default) - 1.90.0
  • Esperanto(eo) - 1.90.0
  • Estonian(et) - 1.9.0 (old, rails.po only)
  • French(fr) - 1.90.0
  • German(de) - 1.90.0
  • Greek(el) - 1.9.0 (old)
  • Hungarian(hu) - 1.90.0 (new)
  • Italian(it) - 1.6.0 (old)
  • Japanese(ja) - 1.90.0
  • Korean(ko) - 1.9.0 (old)
  • Norwegian(nb) - 1.9.0 (old)
  • Portuguese(Brazil)(pt_BR) - 1.90.0
  • Russian(ru) - 1.90.0
  • Spanish(es) - 1.9.0 (old)
  • Swedish(sv) - 0.8.0 (too much old)
  • Ukrainian(ua) - 1.90.0 (new)
  • Vietnamese(vi) - 1.90.0

Maintainer

Masao Mutoh <mutoh at highway.ne.jp>

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