gettext/os2

/*-------------- GNU gettext version 0.10.36 ---------------------------*/
/*-------------- ported to run with emx+gcc on OS/2 --------------------*/

Jun SAWATAISHI <jsawa@attglobal.net>      Sat, 24 Feb 2001 03:22:12 +0900




Environment Variables
====================

  GNULOCALEDIR env. var. is not used !!

  In your `config.sys'

            set UNIXROOT=x:      ; directory where you installed

                 If you executed "make prefix=x:/usr" and 
                                 "make prefix=x:/usr", 
                          or
                     "configure --with-included-gettext --prefix=x:/usr" and 
                     "make install", 
                 
                 this env. var. is not essential. 


            set LANG=YOUR_CHOICE  ; always REQUIRED

                          e.g. de, pt_BR, ja_JP.SJIS

                 __Important notice__

                      If LANG env. var. is not exist, 
                      program will always show English message, even 
                      if LANGUAGE env. var. is properly set. 


            set LANGUAGE=xx       ; optional, two letter for you country

              Chinese `zh', Czech `cs', Danish `da', Dutch `nl', Esperanto `eo',
              Finnish `fi', French `fr', Irish `ga', German `de', Greek `el',
              Italian `it', Japanese `ja', Indonesian `in', Norwegian `no',
              Polish `pl', Portuguese `pt', Russian `ru', Spanish `es', Swedish
              `sv' and Turkish `tr'.

                   Replace xx by the two-letter ISO 639 code for your language. 
                   Read Info manual of gettext. 
                      
               LANGUAGE env. var. overrides LANG. 
                     When LANG=deutsch and LANGUAGE=ja, 
                     Japanese message will shown by programs. 
  
  

  Here is a partial copy of README file included in libiconv-1.3
  (this is old, libiconv-1.6 has been released)

>              LIBICONV - character set conversion library
>
>This library provides an iconv() implementation, for use on systems which
>don't have one, or whose implementation cannot convert from/to Unicode.
>
>It provides support for the encodings:
>
>    European languages
>        ASCII, ISO-8859-{1,2,3,4,5,7,9,10,13,14,15,16},
>        KOI8-R, KOI8-U, KOI8-RU,
>        CP{1250,1251,1252,1253,1254,1257}, CP{850,866},
>        Mac{Roman,CentralEurope,Iceland,Croatian,Romania},
>        Mac{Cyrillic,Ukraine,Greek,Turkish},
>        Macintosh
>    Semitic languages
>        ISO-8859-{6,8}, CP{1255,1256}, Mac{Hebrew,Arabic}
>    Japanese
>        EUC-JP, SHIFT-JIS, CP932, ISO-2022-JP, ISO-2022-JP-2, ISO-2022-JP-1
>    Chinese
>        EUC-CN, HZ, GBK, EUC-TW, BIG5, CP950, ISO-2022-CN, ISO-2022-CN-EXT
>    Korean
>        EUC-KR, CP949, ISO-2022-KR
>    Armenian
>        ARMSCII-8
>    Georgian
>        Georgian-Academy, Georgian-PS
>    Thai
>        TIS-620, CP874, MacThai
>    Laotian
>        MuleLao-1, CP1133
>    Vietnamese
>        VISCII, TCVN, CP1258
>    Platform specifics
>        HP-ROMAN8, NEXTSTEP
>    Full Unicode
>        UTF-8
>        UCS-2, UCS-2BE, UCS-2LE
>        UCS-4, UCS-4BE, UCS-4LE
>        UTF-16, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE
>        UTF-7
>        JAVA
>    Full Unicode, in terms of `uint16_t' or `uint32_t'
>        (with machine dependent endianness and alignment)
>        UCS-2-INTERNAL, UCS-4-INTERNAL
>
>It can convert from any of these encodings to any other, through Unicode
>conversion. It has also some limited support for transliteration, i.e.
>when a character cannot be represented in the target character set, it can
>be approximated through one or several similarly looking characters.

 How to Link Gettext with Other Softwares
=========================================

 - Be sure that gettext has been installed
      e.g.
           c:/usr/include/libintl.h
           c:/usr/lib/libintl.{a,lib}
           c:/usr/lib/charset.alias
           c:/usr/dll/intl36f5.dll
           c:/usr/share/locale/??/LC_MESSAGE/*.mo
           c:/usr/share/locale/locale.alias
           c:/usr/bin/gettext.exe
                      gettextize 
                      msgcmp.exe 
                      msgcomm.exe
                      msgfmt.exe 
                      msgmerge.exe
                      msgunfmt.exe
                      xgettext.exe

 - Be sure that sources are prepared for gettext

 - If you do _not_ want to use UNIXROOT env. var

    Programs main source should contain a line:
         bindtextdomain (PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR); 

    Define LOCALEDIR as your directory to be installed

      If you like to install "x:/foo", 
                   > make prefix=x:/foo -- this makes LOCALEDIR 
                                            ="x:/foo/share/locale"
                 and
                    > make prefix=x:/foo install
             or
                    > sh configure --with-included-gettext --prefix=x:/foo
                    > make install

       Files will be intalled this way

              x:/foo/bin/*.exe
              x:/foo/share/locale/??/LC_MESSAGE/*.mo
              x:/foo/lib/charset.alias

       __Important notice__

         When UNIXROOT env. var. exists, search path may vary

         e.g. UNIXROOT=y:
                          LOCALEDIR is assumed as "y:/usr/share/locale"
                          charset.alias is assumed to be in "y:/usr/lib"


         When UNIXROOT env. var. is not set or is empty and HOME env. 
         var. is "x:/foo", `x:/usr/share/locale' is assumed as LOCALEDIR. 



 - If you want to FIX LOCALEDIR in the way of XFree86
     
    __Important notice__

      If compile time LOCALEDIR definition is equal to 
               "/XFree86/lib/locale/X11" 
            or
               "__XOS2RedirRoot(/XFree86/lib/X11/locale)"
    programs will _not_ read UNIXROOT env. var.

      This implementation is intented to keep upper compatibility with 
    conventional way of XFree86 OS/2 programs (gtk related ones). 
    

     Here I assume X11ROOT env. var. is "n:"

       Method-1:
               > sh configure --with-included-gettext \  (line is not break)
                  --prefix=n:/XFree86 --datadir=n:/XFree86/lib/X11
               > make install


       Method-2:

               > make prefix=n:/XFree86 datadir=n:/XFree86/lib/X11
               > make install prefix=n:/XFree86 datadir=n:/XFree86/lib/X11

       Method-3:  require modification of source codes
          Change
            bindtextdomain (PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR); 
          to
            bindtextdomain (PACKAGE, __XOS2RedirRoot("/XFree86/lib/X11/locale")); 
          or
            bindtextdomain (PACKAGE,"/XFree86/lib/X11/locale"; 
    
               > make               (prefix is meaningless for LOCALEDIR)
               > make install prefix=n:/XFree86 datadir=n:/XFree86/lib/X11


      Method-1, 2, 3 will intall files this way

              n:/XFree86/bin/*.exe
              n:/XFree86/lib/X11/locale/??/LC_MESSAGE/*.mo
              n:/XFree86/lib/charset.alias

      __Important notice__

         If UNIXROOT is set, search path for `charset.alias' will change

         e.g. UNIXROOT=e:
                          charset.alias is assumed to be in "e:/usr/lib"
                          (LOCALEDIR is ommited by programs)

              You shoud copy `n:/XFree86/lib/charset.alias' in `e:/usr/lib'

         When UNIXROOT env. var. is not set or is empty and HOME env. 
         var. is "x:/foo", `x:/usr/lib/charset.alias' will be searched for. 


 - Summary

     compile time            env. var.                        LOCALEDIR for running
      LOCALEDIR               UNIXROOT  HOME         programs
========================================================================
 __XOS2RedirRoot(XLOCALEDIR)    x:     y:/foo  __XOS2RedirRoot(XLOCALEDIR)
 __XOS2RedirRoot(XLOCALEDIR)    x:      -      __XOS2RedirRoot(XLOCALEDIR)
 __XOS2RedirRoot(XLOCALEDIR)    -      y:/foo  __XOS2RedirRoot(XLOCALEDIR)
 __XOS2RedirRoot(XLOCALEDIR)    -       -      __XOS2RedirRoot(XLOCALEDIR)
   XLOCALEDIR                   x:     y:/foo  __XOS2RedirRoot(XLOCALEDIR)
   XLOCALEDIR                   x:      -      __XOS2RedirRoot(XLOCALEDIR)
   XLOCALEDIR                   -      y:/foo  __XOS2RedirRoot(XLOCALEDIR)
   XLOCALEDIR                   -       -      __XOS2RedirRoot(XLOCALEDIR)
   c:/DIR/share/locale          x:     y:/foo  x:/usr/share/locale
   c:/DIR/share/locale          x:      -      x:/usr/share/locale
   c:/DIR/share/locale          -      y:/foo  y:/usr/share/locale
   c:/DIR/share/locale          -       -      c:/DIR/share/locale
   /DIR/share/locale            x:     y:/foo  x:/usr/share/locale
   /DIR/share/locale            x:      -      x:/usr/share/locale
   /DIR/share/locale            -      y:/foo  y:/usr/share/locale
   /DIR/share/locale            -       -        /DIR/share/locale


                  Note:  XLOCALEDIR = "/XFree86/lib/X11/locale"




Modifications on gettext utilities
==================================
  
  JAPANESE shift JIS code is accepted by the programs, when 
  "charset=sjis" in PO file

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