I18NFool - Internationalization File Object Oriented Leech
This toolkit is mainly targetted at Petal, but it should work with other templating language which implement the ZPT i18n specification.
First you need a locale directory somewhere for your web app.
cd /opt/myapp mkdir locale cd locale
Then you need to extract a bunch of .pot files from your internationalized templates. I18NFool assumes that your templates are properly localized.
In the future it will include a tool to find strings which potentially need localization.
I18NFool creates one .pot file per domain which is defined in the templates. The format is <domain>.pot.
If no i18n:domain is specified, I18NFool assumes the domain is called 'default'.
find /opt/myapp/templates |egrep '\.html$' |xargs i18nfool-extract
Create one directory for each language which will need to be translated.
cd /opt/myapp/locale mkdir en_GB mkdir en_US mkdir fr_FR mkdir fr_CA mkdir ja
Then run the i18n-update tool.
cd /opt/myapp/locale i18nfool-update
i18n-update will *not* erase your existing .po files, it will update them nicely using gettext's msgmerge tool.
If the .po file does not exist, it will create a new one.
Once you are happy with your set of .po files, it's time to build the .mo files which are going to be used by your application, for example using Locale::MakeText::Gettext.
cd /opt/myapp/locale i18nfool-build
This is a totally *alpha* release, so I'd say 'plenty'. Bug reports are welcome. Patches will do your karma real good.
AUTHORS & LICENSE
(C) Copyright 2004 MKDoc Ltd. and Laurent Bedubourg Authors Jean-Michel Hiver and Laurent Bedubourg <lbedubourg@motion-twin.com>. This module is free software, it is distributed under the same license as Perl itself.
To install I18NFool, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm I18NFool
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install I18NFool
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.