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+* Adding your own language to GPSBabelGUI *\r
+-------------------------------------------\r
+\r
+In first step you need an editor for so called .PO files.\r
+These files contains the strings needed to be translated.\r
+The basic .po file for GPSBabelGUI is default.po and should be\r
+located in your gui directory. The translation can be done with\r
+any editor, but i suggest poedit (http://www.poedit.org/download.php).\r
+poedit is the "must have" tool for dooing such translations.\r
+\r
+If you have done the translation of the billions of message from\r
+the gui have to do the following:\r
+\r
+- Download and install the package dxgettext from "http://dybdahl.dk/dxgettext"\r
+- Create a new folder below your gui directory in form\r
+ <your-gui-directory>\locale\<LC>\LC_MESSAGES\r
+- Replace <LC> with the shortcut for your language.\r
+- The file "languagecodes.txt" from dxgettext is good reference for\r
+ finding the valid shortcut.\r
+- (1) Move your new default.po to folder LC_MESSAGE below <your-LC>.\r
+- (2) Right-mouse-click on the .po file ... and you should see a new command\r
+ in your context menu "compile to mo file" ... doit.\r
+- Borland Delphi uses a lot of internal strings, but you don't have to\r
+ translate them too. On\r
+ "http://svn.berlios.de/wsvn/dxgettext/trunk/translations/" you will find\r
+ a lot of Delphi internal translations. For our gui you should download\r
+ "delphi.po" for Delphi5 and for <your-LC>\r
+- Repeat steps (1) and (2) for delphi.po\r
+- Start the gui and be happy.\r
+\r
+- That's all, but please please please, send us a copy of your translation.\r
+ A mail to gpsbabel-misc@lists.sourceforge.net with your translated\r
+ default.po will be immediatly implemented in the project and will be\r
+ available for many other users.\r
+\r
+\r
+* Getting the source *\r
+----------------------\r
+\r
+There are two ways to get the source of the gui. One of them is source\r
+release package you can download from fourceget. Open "www.gpsbabel.org"\r
+in your browser and go over "downloads" to the download list. The file you\r
+need is called gpsbabel-<version>-<release>.tar.gz. The gui source you will\r
+find in the win32/gui-2 folder.\r
+\r
+The second way is to checkout the current development tree with CVS.\r
+At SourceForge.net you will find the infos for working with cvs.\r
+\r
+To checkout the gpsbabel source tree the command line should look like this:\r
+\r
+cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gpsbabel co gpsbabel\r
+\r
+This command will create a new folder in your working directory and\r
+receive the complete source tree like the source tree but with all\r
+changes made after the latest release.\r
+\r
+\r
+* Compiling from source *\r
+-------------------------\r
+\r
+Currently the gui is developed under Delphi 4. Other releases of Delphi are\r
+tested but are not used because of backward compatibility. If you want to help\r
+us and Delphi is not in your software collection, "Delphi 6 Personal Edition"\r
+would be the cheapest (or free) way.\r
+\r
+\r
+\r