spanish .po?

[ccarleos@fisher.ciencias.uniovi.es]

Hello. I intend to use "statist" as a replacement to closed software we
use in our classes of statistics. I think I do need a translation to
Spanish of the interface, so

1. I have read the mailing list and it seems nobody has contributed a
"po" file to any language. Right?

2. I have never used "gettext" before. When trying to run "xgettext" on
"statist" sources, messages longer than a line (I mean, that use a
backslash to escape the carriage return) cause errors. Do not know how
to manage that.

3. As I begin my classes very soon, I have started to translate the
messages on their place in sources -> not using gettext. I hope later,
with a little Perl or a proper use of xgettext, will be easy to create
the ".po" file.

4. I am obliged to use MS-DOS or Windows (will try FreeDOS) in my
classes. I have compiled the 1.0.1 version of statist with DJGPP, and it
works fine. But, what about international encoding in DOS? Latin 1
(iso-8859-1) corresponds with cp1252, doesn't it? Any suggestions for
this job? (I have thought about using "cstocs", by Jan Kasprzak and Jan
Pazdziora, to convert the sources before compiling in DOS; sorry, I did
not say that I usually work in a Debian system).

Thanks for any advice. And for your work. "statist" is a very useful
tool in many occasions.


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Carlos Enrique Carleos Artime
Departamento de Estadística
Universidad de Oviedo
Escuela de Marina Civil
33203 Spain

ccarleos @ fisher.ciencias.uniovi.es
http://carleos.etsiig.uniovi.es

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