<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.26.0"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 08:24 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <TT>It seems to be a reasonable approach, my main concern is that</TT> <TT>nothing is broken if either the packager or builder doesn't</TT> <TT>have it installed.</TT> </BLOCKQUOTE> Unless I misread, po4a uses gettext which isn't initialized in any of the X.Org modules.  This may come as a surprise for those who have been routinely working on translation for years. <BLOCKQUOTE> <PRE> The po4a (PO for anything) project goal is to ease translations (and more interestingly, the maintenance of translations) using gettext tools on areas where they were not expected like documentation. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> Adding proper support for gettext with AM_GNU_GETTEXT is not difficult, I had a play with it a while ago, but it brings a load of files and it's share of quirks and workarounds. If this man page is the only translatable item we will ever add, then ... <A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/gettext/AM_005fGNU_005fGETTEXT.html">http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/gettext/AM_005fGNU_005fGETTEXT.html</A> </BODY> </HTML>