Ruby-Gettext-Package
====================

  Ruby-GetText-Package is Native Language Support Library and Tools 
  which modeled after GNU gettext package.

  Features:

  * Simple APIs(similar GNU gettext)

  * rgettext creates po-files from 
    * ruby scripts 
    * glade-2 XML file(.glade)
    * ERB file(.rhtml)
    The po-file is compatible to GNU gettext.

  * rmsgfmt creates a mo-file from a po-file.
    The mo-file is compatible to GNU gettext(msgfmt).

  * 2 kind of textdomain's scope
    * A file base (default: recommanded)
    * A Class/Module base 
      (GetText::Container, GetText::ErbContainer, GetText::Rails)

  * CGI support (gettext/cgi)

  * ERB support (gettext/erb)

  * Ruby on Rails support (gettext/rails)


Requirements
------------

  * Ruby 1.8.2 or later <http://www.ruby-lang.org/ja/>
  * GNU gettext 0.10.35 or later 
    <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/gettext.html>
    (for Development only)
  * Racc-1.4.3 or later
    <http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/list.rhtml?name=racc>
    (for compiling src/rmsgfmt.ry only)

Install
-------

  De-Compress archive and enter its top directory.
  Then type:

   ($ su)
    # ruby setup.rb

  You can also install files in your favor directory by
  supplying setup.rb some options. Try "ruby setup.rb --help".

Usage
-----

  If you are end-user of an application which depends on this library, 
  you don't need do nothing (See applications documents).

  If you are developer of the application which depends on this library,
  see:
  http://gettext.rubyforge.org/    (English)
  http://gettext.rubyforge.org/ja/ (Japanese)


License
-------
  This program is licenced under the same licence as Ruby.
  (See the file 'COPYING'.)

* Ruby-GetText-Package
  Copyright (C) 2001-2005 Masao Mutoh <mutoh@highwhay.ne.jp>

* mo.rb
  Copyright (C) 2001-2004 Masao Mutoh <mutoh@highwhay.ne.jp>
  Copyright (C) 2001,2002 Masahiro Sakai <s01397ms@sfc.keio.ac.jp>

* gettext.rb
  Copyright (C) 2001-2005 Masao Mutoh <mutoh@highwhay.ne.jp>
  Copyright (C) 2001,2002 Masahiro Sakai <s01397ms@sfc.keio.ac.jp>

* rgettext 
  Copyright (C) 2001-2005 Masao Mutoh <mutoh@highwhay.ne.jp>
  Copyright (C) 2001,2002 Yasushi Shoji <yashi@yashi.com>

* rmsgfmt 
  Copyright (C) 2003,2005 Masao Mutoh <mutoh@highwhay.ne.jp>

* setup.rb
  Copyright (C) 2000-2004 Minero Aoki <aamine@loveruby.net>
  This file is released under LGPL. See the top of the install.rb.

* Others
  Copyright (C) 2001-2005 Masao Mutoh <mutoh@highwhay.ne.jp>


Translators
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French             - Laurent Sansonetti
German             - Detlef Reichl, Sven Herzberg
Italian            - Gabriele Renzi
Japanese           - Masao Mutoh
Korean             - Gyoung-Yoon Noh
Portuguese(Brazil) - Joao Pedrosa 
Spanish            - David Espada, David Moreno Garza
Swedish            - Nikolai Weibull


Maintainer
----------
  Masao Mutoh<mutoh@highway.ne.jp>
