TRANSLATE(6) TRANSLATE(6)
NAME
translate - translation dictionary
SYNOPSIS
/locale/dict/app
/locale/locale/dict/app
DESCRIPTION
A dictionary file provides translation text that applica-
tions can access using translate(2). Each is a Unicode file
containing a set of translations, one per line, each line
having the following syntax:
"source-text" [ (note-text) ] [ ="target-text" ]
which defines target-text as the translation for source-text
. A missing translation clause defines the identity transla-
tion. The optional note-text qualifies the context of the
source-text, when the same phrase in the source language
might translate to different phrases in the target language,
or to distinguish a particular context in the program (eg,
particular menus): For example:
"Times"(newspaper) = "La Republicca"
"Times"(timetable) = "L'orario"
"ABC"(keypad) = "abc"
Empty lines and lines beginning with # are ignored. The
quoted strings can contain the Limbo escape sequences \n
(newline), \t (tab), \r (carriage return), and \\ (back-
slash).
The default locale is set by binding one or more specific
locales onto /locale/dict.
FILES
/locale/*/dict/*