[gbib-dev] i18n support

[Felipe Bergo <bergo@seul.org>]

I've just committed i18n support to the CVS, but it is not complete yet,
the "dist" target hasn't been updated and maybe the intl and po
directories will be missed.

after a checkout it is wise to run

aclocal && autoheader && autoconf

if configure fails, running 'gettextize' may help, but it shouldn't be
needed.

(moria, the cvs server, was reinstalled from scratch due to a hard disk
malfunction recently, its SSH key has changed, if you have an old entry
under ~/.ssh and hasn't connected in while, ssh may give you a really big
warning and refuse to connect, removing moria's server key from ~/.ssh/*
so do the trick)

if further trouble arises, ./configure --disable-nls should do it (and
disable i18n altogether).

adding a new language consists of:
 writing a <lang>.po file based on bare_messages.po (located on gbib's
 toplevel dir)

 copying the .po to the po directory

 editing configure.in and changing the line
 ALL_LINGUAS="pt_BR"

 to something like ALL_LINGUAS="es fr pt_BR"

 and it's done (running autoconf, configure, make, make install is needed
 to get everything working)

Since language catalogs get installed to %prefix%/share/locales ,
it must be installed to work.

to test just set either LC_ALL or LANG environment variables to the chosen
language (pt_BR, es, etc.) and run gbib.

There are 3 entries in bare_messages.po which I'm not sure whether they
should be translated or if they are part of "code", namely:

#: gui.C:844
msgid "Set off lyx"
msgstr ""

#: gui.C:844
msgid "FILE"
msgstr ""

#: gui.C:846
msgid "Whether display warnings"
msgstr ""

In the pt_BR translation I did I left those untranslated (empty).

Let me know if you have trouble compiling or running it, I have just made
it work on my home box (Slackware 7.0, Gnome 1.0.something, gettext
0.10.35), I will compile it elsewhere on the next few days.

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