1. Globalizing Your Software By Parag Nemade Fedora Contributor

2. Agenda Introduction Internationalization Localization C – Example
Python – Example

3. Introduction
Globalization (G11N) is the process to globalize your work like software or business processes or any other thing that you want all world to understand and use it for their need in their own native language.
For software, it is the process of adding internationalization (I18N) and localization (L10N) into your source code.

4. Internationalization
Help to uniformly work your software across multiple regions.
It includes adding i18n support in your code which will enable string entries for translators.
Code to handle all international support without breaking core software functionality
Should not create problem for data storage and display
Help to set user locale settings such as date, number, currency, sorting, paper size.
Users can input in their own language preferences.

5. Localization
Translators to provide correct meaningful translations. (Mostly English to other language)
Software will be available in additional languages not just only in English.
Sometimes use minimal text compared to actual translations text to accommodate it on Labels, buttons.
GUI messages, Documentation, websites, Marketing brochures are translated.

6. Code Flow for G11N Source Code Source Code Source Code Source Code
I18N
L10N
G11N

7. Internationalization
General G11N Workflow
Internationalization
Globalized
Product/Software
Product/Software
Localization

8. Advantages
No overlapping of translated strings over adjacent widgets, prevent re-translation
For translators, it will be easy to just use single file like po format
No need for duplicate strings translation, all are picked uniquely in pot file

9. Disadvantages
Many places of messages in source code need to be modified to add g11n
Extra time need to spent on testing i18n support
Data encoding conversions
Rendering of text (Character reordering, conjuncts)
Text message length on UI widgets (auto-expansion, more space between adjacent widgets)
Extra time need to spent on testing l10n support
Translations text need to be minimized.

10. C – Example (Basic) #include <libintl.h>
#include <locale.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#define _(X) gettext(X)
int main(void) {
setlocale(LC_ALL,"");
bindtextdomain (“helloworld”, “.”);
textdomain (“helloworld”);
printf(_("Hello World!!\n"));
return 0; }

11. C – Example (autotools)
#include <config.h>
#include <libintl.h>
#include <locale.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#define _(X) gettext(X)
int main(void) {
setlocale(LC_ALL,"");
#if ENABLE_NLS
bindtextdomain (GETTEXT_PACKAGE, PACKAGE_LOCALE_DIR);
textdomain (GETTEXT_PACKAGE);
#endif
printf(_("Hello World!!\n"));
return 0; }

12. C++ - Example #include <config.h> #include <libintl.h>
#include <locale.h>
#include <iostream>
int main (){
setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
#if ENABLE_NLS
bindtextdomain (GETTEXT_PACKAGE, PACKAGE_LOCALE_DIR);
textdomain (GETTEXT_PACKAGE);
#endif
std::cout << gettext("Hello world!!") << std::endl; }

13. Python - Example import gettext
gettext.bindtextdomain('hello-py', '.')
gettext.textdomain('hello-py')
_ = gettext.gettext
print _('Hello World!!')

14. G11N references Wiki → https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/G11N
I18N →
L10N →
FLTG →
Zanata →

15. Any Questions?

16. Thanks pnemade@fedoraproject.org #fedora-g11n on Freenode server