[ANN] Ruby-GetText-Package-1.6.0

Hi,

Ruby-GetText-Package-1.6.0 is now available.

Changes

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* Support Chinese(zh_CN), Italian(it).
* Improve the way to manage textdomains.
    * A class/module can have plural textdomains.
    * A textdomain belong to a class/module.
    * A class/module can have plural textdomains.
    * A message is looked up in its class/module and ancestors.

      You don't need to call bindtextdomain in each files.
      # A textdomain belong to a file in previous version.
      # And a message is looked up in the file which called
      # GetText functions only.

Thanks to:
babie, charlie, Nobuhiro IMAI, Hiroyuki Iwatsuki, Yingfeng,
Marco Lazzeri, Nobu Nakada, Gudao Luo, markus koller,
and others.

Website
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http://rubyforge.org/projects/gettext/

* Download
  http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=855&release_id=2856

* Ruby-GetText-Package HOWTOs
  http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-gettext-howto.html
* Ruby-GetText-Package HOWTO for Ruby on Rails
  http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-gettext-howto-rails.html
* Ruby-GetText-Package API Reference
  http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-gettext-api.html
* Ruby-GetText-Package documents for Translators
  http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-gettext-translate.html

ScreenShots
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Screenshots in 13 language (Sample Rails blog) are:
http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/?ruby-gettext-screenshot

What's this?
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Ruby-GetText-Package is a Localization(L10n) Library and Tools which is
modeled after GNU gettext package.

The library converts the messages to localized messages properly using
client-side locale information. And the tools for developers support
to create, use, and modify localized the message files(message catalogs)
easily.

Features:
  * Simple APIs(similar GNU gettext)
  * rgettext command for creating po-files from files below:
       o ruby scripts
       o glade-2 XML file(.glade)
       o ERB file(.rhtml)
       o ActiveRecord (.rb)
  * rmsgfmt command for creating a mo-file from a po-file.
  * The po-file is compatible to GNU gettext.
    You can maintain these files to use GNU getext tools.
  * The mo-file is compatible to GNU gettext(msgfmt).
  * multi-textdomain supported.
    You can bind plural textdomains to a class/module.
  * CGI support (gettext/cgi)
  * ERB support (gettext/erb)
  * Ruby on Rails support (gettext/rails)

Status of translations
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Chinese(zh) - 1.6.0
Czech(cs) - 1.6.0
Dutch(nl) - 1.6.0
English(default) - 1.6.0
French(fr) - 1.6.0
German(de) - 1.6.0
Greek(el) - 1.6.0
Spanish(es) - 1.6.0
Italian(it) - 1.6.0
Japanese(ja) - 1.6.0
Korean(ko) - 1.6.0
Portuguese(Brazil)(pt_BR) - 1.6.0
Russian(ru) - 1.6.0
Swedish(sv) - 0.8.0 (old)

Can you help us?/ Can we help you?
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Join our ML if you are interested in:
* Improve Ruby-GetText-Package.
* Translators.
* Application/library owners who think to make your apps/libs L10n.
  If you send us your po-files, we'll translate it!
  # At least, a Japanese translator is available ;).

ML:
http://rubyforge.org/mail/?group_id=855

Regards,

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.:% Masao Mutoh<mutoh@highway.ne.jp>