From: Masao Mutoh <mutoh@...>
Date: 2008-09-16T02:24:33+09:00
Subject: [ANN] Ruby-GetText-Package-1.93.0

Hi,

Ruby-GetText-Package-1.93.0 is now available.

Changes
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 * Bulgarian added.
 * Estonian updated.
 * French updated.
 * Japanese updated.
 * np_, npgettext support.
 * Fixed bugs.
   - detect the correct charset on POSIX OS.
   - updatepo task works again on Windows OS(with broken GNU msgmerge).
   - Remove BOM from po-files before GNU msgmerge is executed.
     (GNU msgmerge doesn't support BOM)
   - Work with xx(double x) library and the library which uses xx library
     such as rcov.
   - Fixed expire_fragment with rails < 2.1.

 (NOTE)
    * Rails-1.2.x has not been supported. 
    * Rails-2.2(Edge) has not been supported yet.

Thanks to
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   Translators:
    Vincent Isambart, Erkki Eilonen, Sava Chankov.

  Bug reports, suggestions and patches:
    Vladimir Dobriakov, Tatsuki Sugiura, C辿sar Duque Calle,
    R辿my-Christophe Schermesser, 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

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)
  * Ruby on Rails support (gettext/rails)

ScreenShots
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Screenshots in 23 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 (old)
* Bulgarian(bg)             - 1.93.0 (new)
* Catalan(ca)               - 1.93.0
* Croatian(hr)              - 1.90.0 (old)
* Chinese(zh_CN)            - 1.93.0
* Chinese(zh_TW)            - 1.93.0
* Czech(cs)                 - 1.9.0 (old)
* Dutch(nl)                 - 1.90.0 (old)
* English(default)          - 1.90.0 (old)
* Esperanto(eo)             - 1.93.0
* Estonian(et)              - 1.93.0
* French(fr)                - 1.93.0
* German(de)                - 1.93.0
* Greek(el)                 - 1.93.0
* Hungarian(hu)             - 1.93.0
* Italian(it)               - 1.6.0 (old)
* Japanese(ja)              - 1.93.0
* Korean(ko)                - 1.9.0 (old)
* Latvian(lv)               - 1.93.0 (new)
* Norwegian(nb)             - 1.93.0
* Portuguese(Brazil)(pt_BR) - 1.93.0
* Russian(ru)               - 1.93.0
* Serbian(sr)               - 1.91.0 (old)
* Spanish(es)               - 1.93.0
* Swedish(sv)               - 0.8.0 (too much old)
* Ukrainian(ua)             - 1.93.0
* Vietnamese(vi)            - 1.93.0

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
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.:% Masao Mutoh<mutoh@highway.ne.jp>