Translated Message Catalog Files
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File	Language	Note	Maintainer
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ja.po	Japanese	1	ABE Shige <sabe@ibm.net>
				MANOME Tomonori <manome@itlb.te.noda.sut.ac.jp> 
pt.po	Portuguese		Alfredo K. Kojima <kojima@inf.ufrgs.br>
de.po	German			Carsten Schaar 
					<nhadcasc@fs-maphy.uni-hannover.de>
es.po	Spanish			Raul Benito Garcia <raul@fi.upm.es>
ko.po	Korean		1,2	Bang Jun-Young <bangjy@nownuri.net>
se.po	Swedish			John Forgoil <forgoil@rsn.hk-r.se>
cz.po	Czech		3	David İauer <xsauer@hwlab.felk.cvut.cz>
nl.po	Dutch			Roeland Mertens <roeland@zeus.rug.ac.be>
gl.po	Galician		Xose Vazquez <xose@arrakis.es>
fr.po	French			Jean-Francois BIGNOLLES 
					<bignolle@ecoledoc.lip6.fr>

Notes
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1. Multibyte character support must be enabled in WindowMaker. 

2. WindowMaker must also be started from a terminal program that can
display the messages in that language, like xterm that supports Korean
characters.

3. Uses iso8859-2 character set.



If you want to translate WindowMaker messages to some other language,
edit WindowMaker.pot and translate them like:

msgid "%s aborted.\n"
msgstr "%s abortado.\n"

where msgid is the original message and msgstr is the translated
message. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH THE msgid LINES.

The info pages for gettext has more detailed information on how to
do translations. 

Notes: 
- if you think an error message is too obscure just ask me about it.
- you don't need to translate every single word. Some words/expressions are
	easier to understand in the original English form than in our 
	native languages. 
- you can use characters other than standard ASCII, if needed.

Then rename the WindowMake.pot file to the language code 
with a .po extension, reconfigure WindowMaker and run
make install.

To update a translated message file use the tupdate command. As in:
tupdate WindowMaker.pot pt.po > pt.po.new

You may also want to translate the menu definition file.
Send me the translated files to me, so that I can include them
in the next distribution.

--
Alfredo Kojima <kojima@inf.ufrgs.br>
