Hallo, * Daniel Pocock [Tue, Apr 26 2016, 09:32:02PM]: > > > It is well documented how developers should create po files for i18n > support in their debconf configuration questions during package install[1]. > > What about arbitrary scripts that are run from the command line and > don't use debconf to store the user responses? How should they interact > with whiptail and translated strings? Is there either a document > explaining how to do this or any existing script that provides a good > example, in a way that makes it easy for Debian translators to support > the package containing the script?
Long time ago, I used bash's builtin mechanism to enable i18n in pppoeconf, and it worked sufficiently well. Not sure about good documents. I remember finding a couple of blog entries documenting the initial process, the rest was usual Makefile scripting. Best regards, Eduard. -- Die meisten unserer Fehler sind verzeihlicher als die Mittel, die wir anwenden, um sie zu verbergen. -- François de La Rochefoucauld