[ANN] Ruby-GetText-Package-1.90.0

[Masao Mutoh]

Hi,

Ruby-GetText-Package-1.90.0 is now available.

Changes
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* Support Ukrainian(ua), Hungarian(hu) (over 20 languages)
* JRuby supported. Become a pure ruby library (Remove .so extention).
* Don't need C compiler to install.
* Unified to one gem package for all environments (Don't need Win32 package).
* Directory structures are refactored.
* locale modules separate from lib/gettext/ to lib/locale/.
* Locale modules are refactored. System locales become read only.
* Ruby on Rails 2.0 supported. (Rails 1.2.x is not supported).
* RDoc supported.
* Fix bugs.
* Enhance to support Ruby on Rails.

Thanks to
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Translators:
Alex Rootoff, Tamás Tompa

Bug reports, suggestions and patches:
Yaohan Chen, OZAWA Sakuro, olivier ruffin, Vít Ondruch,
Andreas Neuhaus, boud indymedia, Hans de Graaff, Stephan, Reynard,
Ernesto Jiménez Caballero, Paul Clegg

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)
* ERB support (gettext/erb)
* Ruby on Rails support (gettext/rails)

ScreenShots
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Screenshots in 20 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
* Catalan(ca) - 1.90.0
* Croatian(hr) - 1.90.0
* Chinese(zh_CN) - 1.90.0
* Chinese(zh_TW) - 1.90.0
* Czech(cs) - 1.9.0 (old)
* Dutch(nl) - 1.90.0
* English(default) - 1.90.0
* Esperanto(eo) - 1.90.0
* Estonian(et) - 1.9.0 (old, rails.po only)
* French(fr) - 1.90.0
* German(de) - 1.90.0
* Greek(el) - 1.9.0 (old)
* Hungarian(hu) - 1.90.0 (new)
* Italian(it) - 1.6.0 (old)
* Japanese(ja) - 1.90.0
* Korean(ko) - 1.9.0 (old)
* Norwegian(nb) - 1.9.0 (old)
* Portuguese(Brazil)(pt_BR) - 1.90.0
* Russian(ru) - 1.90.0
* Spanish(es) - 1.9.0 (old)
* Swedish(sv) - 0.8.0 (too much old)
* Ukrainian(ua) - 1.90.0 (new)
* Vietnamese(vi) - 1.90.0

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