[MPlayer-DOCS] translating the GUI

[Torinthiel]

On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 06:25:40PM -0300, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> OK, this is an _example_ patch, it is _not_ meant to be committed,
> but it should show how it is done.  If you want to do this for real,
> do not comment out a line, just put in a message string and add that
> to help_mp-en.h.  The translations ore optional.  Plus, while we are
> at it, we should not go string by string but file by file, so that we
> avoid spamming the mailing lists.  So if you want to localize a file,
> localize all messages in it, not just one or two.
> 
> Furthermore we should decide which messages should be localized.  We
> should not touch external libraries, as this makes syncing harder and
> maybe we need not translate all debug messages.
> 
> Comments?

I'm still for gettext or something similar, for one simple reason - it
is then possible to compile a single MPlayer with many language
versions. But otherwise I think it is good (as for an example what to do
and taking into account what you've just written ;). Only one more
question - which libraries are external? Except for libavcodec?
Torinthiel

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