Hi, Ruby-GetText-Package-1.6.0 is now available. Chinese(zh_CN), Italian(it) are supported. Screenshots in 13 language (Sample Rails blog) are: http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/?ruby-gettext-screenshot Since this release, you can localize your rails plugin easily with gettext. I wrote a small example. If you''re interested in it, check the file in the released tar-ball. # See (gettext)/samples/rails/vendor/.... Changes ------- * Support Chinese(zh_CN), Italian(it). * Improve the way to manage textdomains. * A class/module can have plural textdomains. * A textdomain belong to a class/module. * A class/module can have plural textdomains. * A message is looked up in its class/module and ancestors. You don''t need to call bindtextdomain in each files. # A textdomain belong to a file in previous version. # And a message is looked up in the file which called # GetText functions only. Thanks to: babie, charlie, Nobuhiro IMAI, Hiroyuki Iwatsuki, Yingfeng, Marco Lazzeri, Nobu Nakada, Gudao Luo, markus koller, 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 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 bind plural textdomains to a class/module. * CGI support (gettext/cgi) * ERB support (gettext/erb) * Ruby on Rails support (gettext/rails) Status of translations ---------------------- Chinese(zh) - 1.6.0 Czech(cs) - 1.6.0 Dutch(nl) - 1.6.0 English(default) - 1.6.0 French(fr) - 1.6.0 German(de) - 1.6.0 Greek(el) - 1.6.0 Spanish(es) - 1.6.0 Italian(it) - 1.6.0 Japanese(ja) - 1.6.0 Korean(ko) - 1.6.0 Portuguese(Brazil)(pt_BR) - 1.6.0 Russian(ru) - 1.6.0 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>