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Localization
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This software package can output messages in languages other than its
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default (which is typically English). To operate in this way, you need
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translation catalogs for the locales you want to support.
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By convention, a locale's name is the lower-case two-letter ISO 639
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code for the name of the locale's language. See
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<ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/doc/ISO/ISO-639-summary> for a list of
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language codes. Here are some example names of locales:
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de German
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en English
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es Spanish
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fr French
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ja Japanese
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ru Russian
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zh Chinese
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For a locale with territorial variants, an underscore and the
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capitalized two-letter ISO 3166 territory code is appended to the
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locale name. See <ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/doc/ISO/ISO-3166-summary>
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for a list of territory codes. Here are some example names of locales
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that are particular to territories:
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de_CH German in Switzerland
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en_UK English in the United Kingdom
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en_US English in the United States
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fr_BE French in Belgium
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fr_CA French in Canada
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fr_CH French in Switzerland
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zh_TW Chinese in Taiwan
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If the `message' directory does not have a translation catalog for your
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locale L, you can write one by copying `message/template.po' to
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`message3/L.po' and then editing each `msgstr' entry in the copy until
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it is a faithful translation of the preceding `msgid' entry.
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* You can omit a msgid-msgstr pair if the two entries are identical.
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This is commen in en_* locales.
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* Be careful about msgstr entries that contain `printf'-style formats,
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e.g. "%s: invalid option -- %c\n"; your translations must have
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formats for exactly the same arguments, otherwise the program may
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behave incorrectly. Your C library should support formats like
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`%2$s' to let you reorder the arguments; if not, your translations
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must format the arguments in the same order as the originals.
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