Re: gettext

[Bruno Haible]

Vlada von Strasnic wrote:

> When i do 
>         export LC_ALL=cs_CZ
>         ls --help
>         ls -la
> then dates are localized , but messages from ls --help are not.
> But they should be , because all catalogs are in /usr/share/locale/...

You can see in
    http://www2.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard/po/registry.cgi?team=cs

that for the newest version of 'ls' (contained in the fileutils), only
about a third of the messages have been translated.

Localization is not magic; it needs volunteers who do the translation
of the messages to a particular language.

Bruno