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Reviewed-on: http://13.234.246.121:3000/Neominds/ossl35vx69/pulls/1 Reviewed-by: Jayesh Babu <jayesh@neominds.in> Co-authored-by: siddhant <siddhant.singh@neominds.in> Co-committed-by: siddhant <siddhant.singh@neominds.in>
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Localization
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The localization process involves two files.
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- A locale dependent file (for example, fr.tmac for French) where all
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locale specific strings are (re)defined.
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- A locale independent file (trans.tmac) responsible for activating those
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localized strings.
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All you have to do is to create a new file named 'LL.tmac' where 'LL' is
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your country code ('de' for Germany, 'el' for Greece, ...), maybe using
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'fr.tmac' as a template.
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The first thing to do is to redefine the string 'locale' to your language.
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.ds locale german\"
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Then change all the translations in the predefined strings. Don't forget
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the \" at the end of each string, preventing spaces from lurking around.
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After 'trans.tmac' has been called by
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.mso trans.tmac
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you must redefine the date strings in order to use the day and month names
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translated earlier. If you don't feel comfortable with groff maybe you
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should use the definitions used in 'fr.tmac'. Nevertheless, you should take
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care of the order of the date elements.
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- If your date format is MM/DD/YY:
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for ms: .ds DY \*[MO] \n[dy] \n[year]
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for mm: .ds cov*new-date \\*[MO\\n[mo]] \\n[dy] \\n[year]
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for me: .ds td \*(mo \n(dy \n(y4
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- If your date format is DD/MM/YY:
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for ms: .ds DY \n[dy] \*[MO] \n[year]
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for mm: .ds cov*new-date \\n[dy] \\*[MO\\n[mo]] \\n[year]
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for me: .ds td \n(dy \*(mo \n(y4
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Other date formats can be handled similarly.
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NOTE: For the mm package, in the 'ISODATE' macro, only the first definition
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of 'cov*new-date' must be changed (see 'fr.tmac').
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Finally, change groff behaviour in order to comply with your locale. For
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example, 'fr.tmac' changes the default encoding, sets the sentence spaces,
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and final activates hyphenation, provided there are hyphenation patterns
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available (which should be put into files named 'hyphen.LL' for
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consistency).
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