Re: lynx-dev NLS

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 04:18:42PM +0530, SreePriya. G wrote:
> > > The lynx-2.8.3.rel1 docs say that it supports NLS
> > > (Native Language Support). And that the method to do it is to set the LANG
> > > enviornment variable.But setting this does not work.
> > 
> > "does not work": need more information (there are several features that
> > might be affected by $LANG).
> 
> Setting LANG=fr ,for example does not cause the messages of lynx
> (lynx-2.8.3.rel1) to appear in French.
> on the other hand in the same setting , invoking "gcal" (A GNU
> package which also uses gettext) , causes French strings to appear on the
> screen.
> 
> A "fr.po" file does exist in the "po" subdirectory though.

those are stubs for the language files in the regular tar or zip - the actual
files are in a different download,

        ftp://lynx.isc.org/lynx-2.8.3/po
 
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