[ANN] Ruby-GetText-Package-1.93.0

[Masao Mutoh]

Hi,

Ruby-GetText-Package-1.93.0 is now available.

Changes
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* Bulgarian added.
* Estonian updated.
* French updated.
* Japanese updated.
* np_, npgettext support.
* Fixed bugs.
- detect the correct charset on POSIX OS.
- updatepo task works again on Windows OS(with broken GNU msgmerge).
- Remove BOM from po-files before GNU msgmerge is executed.
(GNU msgmerge doesn't support BOM)
- Work with xx(double x) library and the library which uses xx library
such as rcov.
- Fixed expire_fragment with rails < 2.1.

(NOTE)
* Rails-1.2.x has not been supported.
* Rails-2.2(Edge) has not been supported yet.

Thanks to
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Translators:
Vincent Isambart, Erkki Eilonen, Sava Chankov.

Bug reports, suggestions and patches:
Vladimir Dobriakov, Tatsuki Sugiura, César Duque Calle,
Rémy-Christophe Schermesser, Donald Piret.

Website
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http://rubyforge.org/projects/gettext/

* Download
http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=855&release_id=2856

* Ruby-GetText-Package HOWTOs
http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-gettext-howto.html
* Ruby-GetText-Package HOWTO for Ruby on Rails
http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-gettext-howto-rails.html
* Ruby-GetText-Package API Reference (RDoc)
http://www.yotabanana.com/gettextapi/
* FAQ for Ruby-GetText-Package
http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-gettext-faq.html
* Ruby-GetText-Package documents for Translators
http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-gettext-translate.html

What's this?
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Ruby-GetText-Package is a Localization(L10n) Library and Tools which is
modeled after GNU gettext package.

The library converts the messages to localized messages properly using
client-side locale information. And the tools for developers support
to create, use, and modify localized the message files(message catalogs)
easily.

Features:
* Simple APIs(similar GNU gettext)
* Singular/plural messages in each locales.
* Extract strings automatically
* rgettext command for creating po-files from files below:
o ruby scripts
o glade-2 XML file(.glade)
o ERB file(.rhtml, .erb)
o ActiveRecord (.rb)
o Other files (you can write your own parser)
* Create mo-files unless msgfmt(in GNU gettext tool)
* rmsgfmt command for creating a mo-file from a po-file.
* Have rgettext/rmsgfmt as module functions. It's useful as Rake tasks.
* The po-file is compatible to GNU gettext.
You can maintain these files to use GNU getext tools.
* The mo-file is compatible to GNU gettext(msgfmt).
* multi-textdomain supported.
You can bind plural textdomains to a class/module.
* CGI support (gettext/cgi)
* Ruby on Rails support (gettext/rails)

ScreenShots
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Screenshots in 23 languages (Sample Rails blog) are:
http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/?ruby-gettext-screenshot

Status of translations
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* Bosnian(bs) - 1.90.0 (old)
* Bulgarian(bg) - 1.93.0 (new)
* Catalan(ca) - 1.93.0
* Croatian(hr) - 1.90.0 (old)
* Chinese(zh_CN) - 1.93.0
* Chinese(zh_TW) - 1.93.0
* Czech(cs) - 1.9.0 (old)
* Dutch(nl) - 1.90.0 (old)
* English(default) - 1.90.0 (old)
* Esperanto(eo) - 1.93.0
* Estonian(et) - 1.93.0
* French(fr) - 1.93.0
* German(de) - 1.93.0
* Greek(el) - 1.93.0
* Hungarian(hu) - 1.93.0
* Italian(it) - 1.6.0 (old)
* Japanese(ja) - 1.93.0
* Korean(ko) - 1.9.0 (old)
* Latvian(lv) - 1.93.0 (new)
* Norwegian(nb) - 1.93.0
* Portuguese(Brazil)(pt_BR) - 1.93.0
* Russian(ru) - 1.93.0
* Serbian(sr) - 1.91.0 (old)
* Spanish(es) - 1.93.0
* Swedish(sv) - 0.8.0 (too much old)
* Ukrainian(ua) - 1.93.0
* Vietnamese(vi) - 1.93.0

Can you help us?/ Can we help you?
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Join our ML if you are interested in:
* Improve Ruby-GetText-Package.
* Translators.
* Application/library owners who think to make your apps/libs L10n.
If you send us your po-files, we'll translate it!
# At least, a Japanese translator is available .

ML:
http://rubyforge.org/mail/?group_id=855

Regards,
Masao