Hi, Ruby-GetText-Package-1.5.0 is now available. Russian is added. Now it supports 11 languages and the screenshot is available. http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/?ruby-gettext-screenshot Have fun! Changes ------- * Support Russian. * Fix bugs. * Refresh mo option was added. Check mo files and reload it if it''s updated. ruby -d or GetText::TextDomain.check_mo=(true). Or development mode in Ruby on Rails. Thanks to: arton, Karel Miarka, Masayoshi Takahashi, Yuri Kozlov and others. Website ------- 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 http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-gettext-api.html * Ruby-GetText-Package documents for Translators http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-gettext-translate.html ScreenShots ----------- Screenshots in 11 language (Sample Rails blog) are: http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/?ruby-gettext-screenshot What''s this? ------------- 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 select two kind of textdomain''s scope: o A file base (default: recommanded) o A Class/Module base (GetText::Container, GetText::ErbContainer, GetText::Rails) * CGI support (gettext/cgi) * ERB support (gettext/erb) * Ruby on Rails support (gettext/rails) Status of translations ---------------------- Czech(cs) - 1.5.0 Dutch(nl) - 1.5.0 English(default) - 1.5.0 French(fr) - 1.5.0 German(de) - 1.5.0 Greek(el) - 1.5.0 Spanish(es) - 1.5.0 Italian(it) - 1.0.0 (old) Japanese(ja) - 1.5.0 Korean(ko) - 1.5.0 Portuguese(Brazil)(pt_BR) - 1.5.0 Russian(ru) - 1.5.0 Swedish(sv) - 0.8.0 (old) Can you help us?/ Can we help you? ---------------------------------- 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 Mutoh<mutoh@highway.ne.jp>