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The FreeBSD Documentation Project
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$FreeBSD$
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<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0" xml:id="l10n">
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<title>Localization and Internationalization - L10N and I18N</title>
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<sect1 xml:id="l10n-programming">
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<title>Programming I18N Compliant Applications</title>
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<indexterm><primary>Qt</primary></indexterm>
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<indexterm><primary>GTK</primary></indexterm>
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<para>To make your application more useful for speakers of other
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languages, we hope that you will program I18N compliant. The GNU
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gcc compiler and GUI libraries like QT and GTK support I18N through
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special handling of strings. Making a program I18N compliant is
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very easy. It allows contributors to port your application to
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other languages quickly. Refer to the library specific I18N
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documentation for more details.</para>
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<para>In contrast with common perception, I18N compliant code is
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easy to write. Usually, it only involves wrapping your strings
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with library specific functions. In addition, please be sure to
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allow for wide or multibyte character support.</para>
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<sect2>
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<title>A Call to Unify the I18N Effort</title>
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<para>It has come to our attention that the individual I18N/L10N
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efforts for each country has been repeating each others'
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efforts. Many of us have been reinventing the wheel repeatedly
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and inefficiently. We hope that the various major groups in
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I18N could congregate into a group effort similar to the Core
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Team's responsibility.</para>
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<para>Currently, we hope that, when you write or port I18N
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programs, you would send it out to each country's related
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FreeBSD mailing list for testing. In the future, we hope to
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create applications that work in all the languages
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out-of-the-box without dirty hacks.</para>
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<para>The &a.i18n; has been established. If you are an I18N/L10N
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developer, please send your comments, ideas, questions, and
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anything you deem related to it.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2>
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<title>Perl and Python</title>
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<indexterm>
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<primary>Perl</primary>
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</indexterm>
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<indexterm>
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<primary>Python</primary>
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</indexterm>
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<para>Perl and Python have I18N and wide character handling
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libraries. Please use them for I18N compliance.</para>
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<para>In older FreeBSD versions,
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Perl may give warnings about not having a wide character locale
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installed on your system. You can set the
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environment variable <envar>LD_PRELOAD</envar> to
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<filename>/usr/lib/libxpg4.so</filename> in your shell.</para>
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<para>In <literal>sh</literal>-based shells:</para>
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<programlisting><envar>LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libxpg4.so</envar></programlisting>
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<para>In <literal>C</literal>-based shells:</para>
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<programlisting><envar>setenv LD_PRELOAD /usr/lib/libxpg4.so</envar></programlisting>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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</chapter>
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