[Nagiosplug-devel] Internationalization

[Jeremy T. Bouse]

Karl,

	I guess it was good timing then as I had just recently been working
with getting to use gettext in a PHP project I was working on, so I
should be getting up to speed to help out with the i18n work needed for
the plugins. As for getting the translations done might it not be a good
idea to make a master messages.po file to give to the translation people
to work from. If they all work from that master then they should be able
to use msgmerge to include new translations into the POT file when there
are additions and subtractions of entries.

	One thought I had while reading the patches you submitted for
check_tcp was that I thought from what I read that adding the \n to the
end of the entry within _("") might cause problems when ran through
xgettext. Have you found any problems with this in your testing or might
this be something we need to be aware of and watchful for as we proceed.

	I do like your idea of having partial gettext support by the
mid-august targeted release date is a reachable goal. If we could have
english, french and german by then that would be an ideal goal. If you
want to split up the plugins that still need work I can take on some of
the load. I have plenty of time while commuting back and forth to work
on the train now that I have a Sony Vaio which is light enough to take
back and forth (replacement for 8lbs Toshiba laptop). I'll also be
taking some vacation time the 30th - 1st so I'll have some free time
to work on things but not the whole time as wife wants me to spend some
time with her.

	Regards,
	Jeremy