[sane-devel] Supported languages?

[abel deuring]

Am 01.10.2017 um 19:04 schrieb Jeff Sadowski:
> I'm not sure I grasp it.
> 
> So if I install ubuntu on a vm for each language I want to support would
> I be able to copy the output for each language?

No: The i18n concept for Sane is this:

- The backends return in every case the Endlish strings as they appear
  in the source code.
- A frontend can/should use the PO files to replace the english strings
  with the desired language.

The problem is that scanimage, the frontend, does not support i18n/l10n.

Perhaps one more reason to follow Jeff's advice not to call scanimage
but to write a Sane library for PHP ;)

> Or would it be better to do a google translate for the languages? I can
> add tables for translating the common options if need be.

Well, the translations are all there, in .po/.mo files -- just use them
;) But again, this is much easier to do if a PHP wrapper for Sane
backends directly passes the English strings to your application than to
search for these strings in the output from scanimage.

I am not at all familiar with PHP, but I'd bet that it supports gettext().

Abel


> 
> On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 5:18 AM, Olaf Meeuwissen
> <paddy-hack at member.fsf.org <mailto:paddy-hack at member.fsf.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Yury,
> 
>     Yury Tarasievich writes:
> 
>     > Does scanimage actually contain the l10n
>     > functionality?
> 
>     Good question!
> 
>     While the backends have their messages translated to some 20 languages,
>     it is the SANE frontend's responsibility to activate translation.  I did
>     a quick check of the scanimage source code and it doesn't seem to do so.
> 
>     Hope this helps,
>     --
>     Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2            FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27
>      GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13  F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9
>      Support Free Software                        https://my.fsf.org/donate
>      Join the Free Software Foundation              https://my.fsf.org/join
> 
>     --
>     sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
>     <mailto:sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
>     http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel
>     <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel>
>     Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password"
>                  to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org
>     <mailto:sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> 
> 
> 
>