Translation of the UI

[Ivan Skytte Jørgensen]

On Saturday 02 August 2008 22:29:43 Joerg Fischer wrote:
> Mechtilde wrote:
> > So I ask if it is possible to localise the UI into German.
...
> This is only a small-sized project.  Often the interest isn't big
> enough to finish things someone started.  Just have a look into the
> patch tracker.  There is also something for localisation
>
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=866976&group_id=11
>005&atid=311005

I had a quick look at that patch. It uses catgets(), which is Posix. An 
alternative would be to use gnu gettext where the impact on the source code 
is less. A third option is to use the X resources (I seem to recall that it 
is possible to override strings of menus/dialogs in ~/.Xdefaults ?)

> Btw, there is no UTF-8 support, either.

That is a bigger problem. The world is moving toward utf-8 and nedit doesn't 
support it. It is not that often I need highbit characters, but when I do it 
is irritating to jump out into vi/vim.

Regards,
  Ivan