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)
    * ActiveRecord(.rb)
    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).

  * 2 kind of textdomain's scope
    * A file base (default: recommanded)
    * A Class/Module base 
      (GetText::Container, GetText::ErbContainer, GetText::Rails)

  * CGI support (gettext/cgi)

  * ERB support (gettext/erb)

  * Ruby on Rails support (gettext/rails)


Requirements
------------

  * Ruby 1.8.3 or later <http://www.ruby-lang.org/ja/>

  (options)
  * GNU gettext 0.10.35 or later 
    <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/gettext.html>
    (for Development only)
  * Racc-1.4.3 or later
    <http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/list.rhtml?name=racc>
    (for compiling src/rmsgfmt.ry only)
  * Ruby on Rails 1.0.0 or later (if you use this package with Ruby on Rails)
    <http://www.rubyonrails.org/>

Install
-------

  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:
  http://gettext.rubyforge.org/

License
-------
  This program is licenced under the same licence as Ruby.
  (See the file 'COPYING'.)

* mo.rb
  Copyright (C) 2001-2004 Masao Mutoh <mutoh@highwhay.ne.jp>
  Copyright (C) 2001,2002 Masahiro Sakai <s01397ms@sfc.keio.ac.jp>

* gettext.rb
  Copyright (C) 2001-2005 Masao Mutoh <mutoh@highwhay.ne.jp>
  Copyright (C) 2001,2002 Masahiro Sakai <s01397ms@sfc.keio.ac.jp>

* rgettext 
  Copyright (C) 2001-2005 Masao Mutoh <mutoh@highwhay.ne.jp>
  Copyright (C) 2001,2002 Yasushi Shoji <yashi@yashi.com>

* setup.rb
  Copyright (C) 2000-2005 Minero Aoki <aamine@loveruby.net>
  This file is released under LGPL. See the top of the install.rb.

* Others
  Copyright (C) 2001-2006 Masao Mutoh <mutoh@highwhay.ne.jp>


Translators
-----------
Czech              - Karel Miarka <kajism at yahoo.com>
Dutch              - Menno Jonkers <ruby-gettext at jonkers.com>
French             - Laurent Sansonetti <laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com>
German             - Detlef Reichl <detlef.reichl at gmx.org>
                     Sven Herzberg <herzi at abi02.de>
                     Sascha Ebach <se at digitale-wertschoepfung.de>
Greek              - Damphyr <damphyr at gmx.net>
Italian            - Gabriele Renzi <surrender_it at yahoo.it>
Japanese           - Masao Mutoh <mutoh at highway.ne.jp>
Korean             - Gyoung-Yoon Noh <nohmad at gmail.com>
Portuguese(Brazil) - Joao Pedrosa <joaopedrosa at gmail.com>
Spanish            - David Espada <davinci at escomposlinux.org> (current)
                     David Moreno Garza <damog at damog.net>
Swedish            - Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk at rawuncut.elitemail.org>

Status of translations
----------------------
cs    - 1.4.0
fr    - 1.4.0
de    - 1.4.0
el    - 1.4.0
es    - 1.4.0
it    - 1.0.0 (old)
ja    - 1.4.0
ko    - 1.4.0
nl    - 1.4.0
pt_BR - 1.4.0
sv    - 0.8.0 (old)

Maintainer
----------
  Masao Mutoh <mutoh@highway.ne.jp>