Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 15:23:11 +0000 From: Ceri <setantae@submonkey.net> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/34966: Developers' handbook, cont. : l10n chapter Message-ID: <E16bkCd-000Eu0-00@rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net>
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>Number: 34966
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Developers' handbook, cont. : l10n chapter
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
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>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Feb 15 07:30:00 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Ceri <setantae@submonkey.net>
>Release: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net 4.5-STABLE FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE #0: Tue Feb 12 17:56:57 GMT 2002 setantae@rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RHADAMANTH i386
>Description:
- Change chapter title, since Localization != I18N
- Minor grammar fixes
Ceri
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
--- doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/l10n/chapter.sgml.old Fri Feb 15 15:06:30 2002
+++ doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/l10n/chapter.sgml Fri Feb 15 15:11:31 2002
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
-->
<chapter id="l10n">
- <title>Localization - I18N</title>
+ <title>Localization and Internationalization - L10N and I18N</title>
<sect1>
<title>Programming I18N Compliant Applications</title>
@@ -13,16 +13,16 @@
<indexterm><primary>GTK</primary></indexterm>
<para>To make your application more useful for speakers of other
languages, we hope that you will program I18N compliant. The GNU
- gcc compiler, GUI Libraries like QT and GTK support I18N through
+ gcc compiler and GUI libraries like QT and GTK support I18N through
special handling of strings. Making a program I18N compliant is
very easy. It allows contributors to port your application to
- other languages quickly. Refer to library specific I18N
+ other languages quickly. Refer to the library specific I18N
documentation for more details.</para>
- <para>To the contrary of common perception, I18N compliant code is
+ <para>In contrast with common perception, I18N compliant code is
easy to write. Usually, it only involves wrapping your strings
with library specific functions. In addition, please be sure to
- allow for wide or multibyte characters support.</para>
+ allow for wide or multibyte character support.</para>
<sect2>
<title>A Call to Unify the I18N Effort</title>
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
<para>Currently, we hope that, when you write or port I18N
programs, you would send it out to each country's related
- FreeBSD mailing lists for testing. In the future, we hope to
+ FreeBSD mailing list for testing. In the future, we hope to
create applications that work in all the languages
out-of-the-box without dirty hacks.</para>
@@ -62,12 +62,12 @@
<primary>Python</primary>
</indexterm>
- <para>Perl and Python have I18N and wide characters handling
+ <para>Perl and Python have I18N and wide character handling
libraries. Please use them for I18N compliance.</para>
<para>In older FreeBSD versions,
- Perl may gives warning about not having a wide characters locale
- that is already installed in your system. You can set the
+ Perl may give warnings about not having a wide character locale
+ installed on your system. You can set the
environmental variable <envar>LD_PRELOAD</envar> to
<filename>/usr/lib/libxpg4.so</filename> in your shell.</para>
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