[RFC] i18n/l10n pam_winbind for samba 3.x

boyang boyang at suse.de
Tue Oct 28 04:38:38 GMT 2008


Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 07:40:17AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
>   
>> Quoting boyang (boyang at suse.de):
>>     
>>> Hi, everybody:
>>>      Does it deserve to i18n/l10n pam_winbind so that error messages and
>>> warnings that will be seen by user is i18n/l10ned, which makes samba
>>> more user-friendly.
>>>       
>> I personnally think that any kind of i18n work in samba would be
>> welcome..:-)
>>
>> Contrary to a wwell established legend, not all sysadmins are very
>> fluent in English and decent localization of software and
>> documentation is always a great enhancement.
>>
>> When it comes at samba, I see some places where i18n would be needed:
>>
>> - interactive commands: mostly 'net'. I seem to remember that some
>>   people mentioned they were working on it, back in Spring
>>
>> - pam_winbind maybe, as you mention
>>     
>
> I'm happy to take any gettext patches. Anything using
> d_printf() is probably a good candidate.
>   
oops...
I think I figure it out. we can define N_(x) (x). And use N_ in
ntstatus_errors[], in _get_ntstatus_error_string(),we use _() to get
i18n'ed string. right?
> Jeremy.
>
>   

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