On Tue, 4 Aug 2020 at 16:51, J.M. Garcia <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there any way of internationalization for halcompile generated files?
Possibly. It's not something I know all that much about, but the fact
that most of the .comp files pass through halcmompile does at least
offer a common site to intervene.
My first thought was that if halcompile were to convert the strings
to gettext style _("like this") then they might get picked up and put
in the .po files. But I have a feeling that .po substitution only
happens in code, not docs.
Halcompile creates a standard Linux manpage:
https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/blob/master/src/hal/utils/halcompile.g#L869
By taking the base component name and adding a .9
A quick google suggests that multilingual manpages are a thing. But I
didn't get much further than that.
I can imagine that replacing all the "print" in that section with a
gettext/multilingual version might work.
Looking on my own system I see that I have a /usr/share/man/es that
contains spanish manpages, and I can see them with
man -Les fakeroot
For example.
So:
1) halcompile has to know how to create manpages in the locations of
other languages. linuxcnc-dev/docs/man/es/man9 ?
2) Somehow these need to get translated. (gettext might be part of the
answer). Or maybe it could create placeholder files for manual
translation. But that's not as nice.
--
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