Since the second beta version of gq 0.7.0 there is a separate distribution of I18N message catalogs. These "langpacks" have been introduced for the following reasons:
- langpacks can be build outside the gq release cycle (which sometimes tends to be rather long)
- People not interested in I18N messages can forget about them
- Simpler integration for new translations. No need to patch configure.in
- Translators may build their own language packs (make langpack-dist)
How to use a langpack
1.) Download gq
2.) Unpack the gq distribution
tar -xzf gq-0.7.0.tar.gz
3.) Download a language pack matching the version of gq 4.) Put the downloaded language pack into the top directory of gq
mv gq-0.7.0-langpack-1.tar.gz gq-0.7.0
5.) Unpack the language pack - This will produce a directory named something
like gq-0.7.0-langpack-1
tar -xzf gq-0.7.0-langpack-1.tar.gz
6.) run the langpack script:
gq-0.7.0-langpack-1/langpack .
7.) configure + make gq as usual
Currently the following languages are part of the language pack:
Language Code Last version Translator
Czech cs 0.6.0 Tomas Dobrovolny <tomasdobrovolny@atlas.cz> German de 0.7.0beta2 Peter Stamfest <peter@stamfest.at> Japanese ja pre 0.7.0beta1 Hatuka*nezumi <nezumi@jca.apc.org>