Am Sonntag, den 14.02.2010, 08:05 -0500 schrieb Raymond Toy:
> I noticed that there is locale/es.po that contains translations of many
> of maxima's messages. Does this actually work? It doesn't for me.
>
> AFAICT, intl.lisp looks for messages in directories like
> locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/maxima.mo when the locale is "es" and the domain
> is "maxima". I played around a bit and moved locale/es.mo to
> locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/maxima.mo. Then I manually set the locale and
> domain to "es" and "maxima". That's not enough. I added
> (intl:textdomain "maxima") at the top of src/comm.lisp and recompiled.
> After doing all of this, messages are translated. Pretty nice!
>
> Although I'm basically illiterate, perhaps we should fix these things so
> our literate friends can read maxima messages in their own language?
>
> Here is what I think needs to be done:
>
> o Put (intl:textdomain "maxima") in each src file. Or at least set it
> when compiling maxima.
> o Adjust intl::*locale-directories* appropriately so maxima-local can
> find the translations.
> o Move es.po to locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/maxima.po.
> o Maxima should call (intl:setlocale) to set the locale from the
> environment variables on startup.
Thank you for your look at this topic.
Some time ago I tried to get it to work with a German translation. I had
problems too. But I had no look at the origin of the problems.
Dieter Kaiser