[ANN] Ruby-GetText-Package-1.8.0

[Masao Mutoh]

Hi,

Ruby-GetText-Package-1.8.0 is now available.

Changes
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* Support Chinese(Taiwan: zh_TW), Estonian(et: rails.po only)
* Improve to support Ruby on Rails.
* Add GetText.bindtextdomain_to(klass, domainname), .textdomain_to(klass, domainname)
* rgettext supports -r, -d options.
-r is to set an option parser. -d is for debugging mode.
(e.g.) $ rgettext -r fooparser test.foo
* Update translations: pt_BR, de, zh_TW,
* Code cleanup, fixed bugs.

Thanks to:
Translators: Joao Pedrosa(pt_BR), Partick Lenz(de), Erkki Eilonen(et),
LIN CHUNG-YI(zh_TW)
Bug reports and suggestions:
Kobayashi Noritada, Andreas Neuhaus, steve dp, Tsutomu Kuroda, 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

ScreenShots
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Screenshots in 13 language (Sample Rails blog) are:
http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/?ruby-gettext-screenshot

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)
* rgettext command for creating po-files from files below:
o ruby scripts
o glade-2 XML file(.glade)
o ERB file(.rhtml)
o ActiveRecord (.rb)
* rmsgfmt command for creating a mo-file from a po-file.
* 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)
* ERB support (gettext/erb)
* Ruby on Rails support (gettext/rails)


Status of translations
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Chinese(zh_CN) - 1.8.0
Chinese(zh_TW) - 1.8.0
Czech(cs) - 1.8.0
Dutch(nl) - 1.8.0
English(default) - 1.8.0
Estonian(et) - 1.8.0 (rails.po only)
French(fr) - 1.8.0
German(de) - 1.8.0
Greek(el) - 1.6.0 (old)
Spanish(es) - 1.8.0
Italian(it) - 1.6.0 (old)
Japanese(ja) - 1.8.0
Korean(ko) - 1.8.0
Portuguese(Brazil)(pt_BR) - 1.8.0
Russian(ru) - 1.8.0
Swedish(sv) - 0.8.0 (old)



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