Minicom Native Language Support

Now minicom has internationalization (i18n for short) support. To make it
work please do the following steps:

- make sure you have gettext installed

- in your profile (/etc/profile or something like that for the system 
profile, or $HOME/.profile for your personal profile) include the 
following environment variable settings:

---------------------------- 8< ------------------------------------------
LC_CTYPE=ISO-8859-1 # or the correct ISO code for your character set
LANG=pt_BR          # change pt_BR to the correct iso code for your language
export LANG LC_CTYPE
---------------------------- 8< ------------------------------------------

In the next login just run minicom!

Currently supported languages are Brasilian Portuguese (pt_BR), Finnish
(fi_FI), Japanese (ja_JP.sjis and ja_JP.ujis), French (fr) and Polish (pl). 
Turkish translations are under construction (for a long time... :( ).

If you want to add support for more languages, this is what to do:
- go to the src/po directory
- make 
- copy minicom.pot as xx.po where xx is the iso code for your language
- edit the xx.po file to include the translations of the English strings
  to your language. The lines beginning with "msgid" contain the English
  string, and the lines beginning with "msgstr" is where you should write
  the translations. See the existing *.po files.
- edit the Makefile (in the src/po directory) to include xx.mo in CATALOGS
- make install (usually as root)
- send your xx.po file to the address(es) below to get it included in
  the next version of Minicom
- when new versions are released some new strings probably become available
  for translation, please go to the src/po directory and execute make
  update-po, the new strings will be added to the catalogs and should then
  be translated. Note that any strings already translated but modified
  should be also fixed/translated. The old ones will be left commented at
  the end of the catalog.


Sat 21 Mar 1998 - Wed 19 Aug 1998
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
Jukka Lahtinen <walker@clinet.fi>
