Quick configuration advice

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The configuration script will automatically find and make use of your installed

'gettext' package. If you do not have gettext installed, or do not want

internationalization support included in the build, then you can disable native

language support using

./configu --disable-nls

Using This Package

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As a user, if your language has been installed for this package, you

only have to set the `LANG' environment variable to the appropriate

`LL_CC' combination. Here `LL' is an ISO 639 two-letter language code,

and `CC' is an ISO 3166 two-letter country code. For example, let's

suppose that you speak German and live in Germany. At the shell

prompt, merely execute `setenv LANG de_DE' (in `csh'),

`export LANG; LANG=de_DE' (in `sh') or `export LANG=de_DE' (in `bash').

This can be done from your `.login' or `.profile' file, once and for

all.

You might think that the country code specification is redundant.

But in fact, some languages have dialects in different countries. For

example, `de_AT' is used for Austria, and `pt_BR' for Brazil. The

country code serves to distinguish the dialects.

The locale naming convention of `LL_CC', with `LL' denoting the

language and `CC' denoting the country, is the one use on systems based

on GNU libc. On other systems, some variations of this scheme are

used, such as `LL' or `LL_CC.ENCODING'. You can get the list of

locales supported by your system for your country by running the command

`locale -a | grep '^LL''.

Not all programs have translations for all languages. By default, an

English message is shown in place of a nonexistent translation. If you

understand other languages, you can set up a priority list of languages.

This is done through a different environment variable, called

`LANGUAGE'. GNU `gettext' gives preference to `LANGUAGE' over `LANG'

for the purpose of message handling, but you still need to have `LANG'

set to the primary language; this is required by other parts of the

system libraries. For example, some Swedish users who would rather

read translations in German than English for when Swedish is not

available, set `LANGUAGE' to `sv:de' while leaving `LANG' to `sv_SE'.

Special advice for Norwegian users: The language code for Norwegian

bokma*l changed from `no' to `nb' recently (in 2003). During the

transition period, while some message catalogs for this language are

installed under `nb' and some older ones under `no', it's recommended

for Norwegian users to set `LANGUAGE' to `nb:no' so that both newer and

older translations are used.

In the `LANGUAGE' environment variable, but not in the `LANG'

environment variable, `LL_CC' combinations can be abbreviated as `LL'

to denote the language's main dialect. For example, `de' is equivalent

to `de_DE' (German as spoken in Germany), and `pt' to `pt_PT'

(Portuguese as spoken in Portugal) in this context.

Translating

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EncFS is registered with Launchpad Translations - an online interface

for supplying translations.

See https://translations.launchpad.net/encfs/main/+pots/encfs

If your language is not included in this distribution, you may want

to check if translated text is already available online in Launchpad.

If not, consider translating some of the strings, which will then be

included in the next EncFS release.