This directory contains the message catalogs for Sketch in the format
for gettext.

If you want to add support for a new language, copy sketch.pot to an
appropriately named po file (e.g. fr.po for French) and add the
translations. Documentation about the file format and the tools to
handle these files is in the GNU gettext package.

With 'make mo' you can create the compiled catalogs that are used at run
time. These mo files are created under ../Resources/Messages/.

It may be a good idea to contact me (bernhard@users.sourceforge.net)
before you start with a new language in case someone is already working
on it.

If you want to rebuild the sketch.pot file from scratch, you need the
pot-utils from http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po-utils/, because
they understand Python syntax sufficiently. GNU xgettext will not work
anymore as of Sketch 0.6.6.

Note for Sketch 0.7.x (May 12th, 2000): This development series will
probably see quite a few changes before 0.8.0 is ready especially in the
user interface code. As a result the messages may also change
substantially. Please keep this in mind before adding a new language. At
this stage it may be better to contribute translations for the stable
branch.

I myself maintain de.po to some degree, but at this time mainly to test
the localization code. es.po and fr.po were created with msgmerge from
the ones in the 0.6.x releases, mostly for completeness sake.