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/* Localization of proper names.
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Copyright (C) 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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Written by Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>, 2006.
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This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
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(at your option) any later version.
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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GNU General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
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Torbjörn Granlund (coreutils)
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François Pinard (coreutils)
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Danilo Šegan (gettext)
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A non-ASCII name. This causes trouble in the --version output. The simple
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"solution", unfortunately mutilates the name.
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$ du --version| grep Granlund
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Écrit par Torbjorn Granlund, David MacKenzie, Paul Eggert et Jim Meyering.
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$ ptx --version| grep Pinard
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What is desirable, is to print the full name if the output character set
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allows it, and the ASCIIfied name only as a fallback.
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$ recode-sr-latin --version
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Written by Danilo Šegan and Bruno Haible.
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$ LC_ALL=C recode-sr-latin --version
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Written by Danilo Segan and Bruno Haible.
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The 'propername' module does exactly this. Plus, for languages that use
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a different writing system than the Latin alphabet, it allows a translator
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to write the name using that different writing system. In that case the
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output will look like this:
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<translated name> (<original name in English>)
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To use the 'propername' module is done in three simple steps:
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1) Add it to the list of gnulib modules to import,
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2) Change the arguments of version_etc, from
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to proper_name ("Paul Eggert")
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from "Torbjorn Granlund"
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to proper_name_utf8 ("Torbjorn Granlund", "Torbj\303\266rn Granlund")
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to proper_name_utf8 ("Franc,ois Pinard", "Fran\303\247ois Pinard")
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(Optionally, here you can also add / * TRANSLATORS: ... * / comments
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explaining how the name is written or pronounced.)
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3) If you are using GNU gettext version 0.16.1 or older, in po/Makevars,
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in the definition of the XGETTEXT_OPTIONS variable, add:
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--keyword='proper_name:1,"This is a proper name. See the gettext manual, section Names."'
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--keyword='proper_name_utf8:1,"This is a proper name. See the gettext manual, section Names."'
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This specifies automatic comments for the translator. (Requires
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xgettext >= 0.15. The double-quotes inside the quoted string are on
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purpose: they are part of the --keyword argument syntax.)
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/* Return the localization of NAME. NAME is written in ASCII. */
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extern const char * proper_name (const char *name);
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/* Return the localization of a name whose original writing is not ASCII.
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NAME_UTF8 is the real name, written in UTF-8 with octal or hexadecimal
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escape sequences. NAME_ASCII is a fallback written only with ASCII
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extern const char * proper_name_utf8 (const char *name_ascii,
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const char *name_utf8);
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#endif /* _PROPERNAME_H */
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