Ri18n, internationalization and localization of Ruby programs.

Ri18n: Make your Ruby application international.

Ri18n is an internationalization and localization library for Ruby applications.

100 % ruby. Use ruby standard tools:
- Rake tasks for managing/updating tranlation files (PO files)
- Ruby Gems for creating translation packages
Take inspiration from Gettext and be (partially) compatible with it:

Use _( ) function (and similars) for marking the strings to translate.
Use PO format for storing translation messages.

Unicode oriented (utf-8). Intially Ri18n was utf-8 only. There is now support for charset conversion.

Status:

Ri18n is in early developement stage but has already working internationalization functionality.

Available features

Reading and writing PO files.
A gettext task (Rake) that gets the new strings in your source code and updates the PO files accordingly
Following translator functions are defined:

Normal translator: _('string')
Plural translator: n_('%i file', '%i files', file_count)
Translator with interpolation: _i('Category is #{@category}')

Plural forms are coded in the library and the right plural form is automatically choosed.
Charset conversions: Automatic conversion on loading from the PO file charset encoding to the ruby application encoding (defined by the value of $KCODE; UTF-8, EUC-JP, Shift-JIS or none (ASCII))

Planned features/TODO

Special support for translating strings in ERB files:
```
<%_string%>
```
shortcut for
```
<%= _('string') %>
```
Support for packaging (gem) of localized versions of your application.
Add a lot of small missing things needed for completeness.

Resources:

Related information

Gnu gettext
Ruby-Gettext; An other package for internationalization of Ruby apps.

Contact:

Contributions of any kind are welcome.

Project page on Berlios (Bug tracking, feature request, patch manager, public forums etc...)
Author: Mertz Denis email

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