[josm-dev] Building JOSM with added language

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Fri, 8 Jul 2011, Jeff Haack wrote:

> Hi, I'm trying to build a custom JOSM with Indonesian language added, since
> it hasn't been added in yet, however I am running into problems.  The end
> result is always that I can choose Indonesian in the language settings, but
> all of the text remains in English.
>
> What I've done is:
>
> download JOSM from svn
> get the indonesian po file from launchpad
> run *118n.pl ./ po/** to get the .lang files
> copy the lang files into core/data
> add this line to the init function:          languages.put("id",
> PluralMode.MODE_NOTONE);
> and build with ant
>
> The resulting josm.jar file allows me to switch to Indonesian but all the
> text remains in English.  I thought this might be a problem with the
> plurals, but even if I copy the Spanish po file and use it to create
> id.lang, it still comes out as English.  I'm not really sure how to add the
> MODE, the header of id.po reads "Plural-Forms: nplurals=1; plural=0;\n"
>
> Any ideas why everything remains in English?

Sounds correct to me. I will have a look this evening (can you send me the 
patch and language files by mail?). Maybe that again is one of the cases 
where Java thinks differently about the language name than we do. Hebrew 
would be another case of this.

Ciao
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