Initializing help system before first use

Using the automatic translation system
Type: Programming
Rating: 2 (easy-medium)
Description: This example employs message markup for translation (such as _c, writeln_) and also demnonstrates the use of annotations relating to the handling of messages.
The provided template file translate.pot (Portable Object Template) has been generated with the compilation option '-x': For each supported language a separate PO (Portable Object) file needs to be generated using the xprnls command: The resulting PO file needs to be edited, completing its header by specifying the language and the encoding, and entering the desired translations.

Run the command below to generate the dictionaries or message catalogues (*.mo Machine Object files) from the provided translations (*.po files): The output will be contained in the subdirectory 'locale'.
File(s): translate.mos
Data file(s): translate.de.po, translate.fr.po, translate.pot

translate.mos
(!*******************************************************
  * Mosel Example Programs                              *
  * ======================                              *
  *                                                     *
  * file tanslate.mos                                   *
  * `````````````````                                   *
  * Example for the use of the Mosel language           *
  * (use of the automatic translation system)           *
  * run the command below to generate the dictionaries: *
  *  xprnls mogen -d locale *.po                        *
  *                                                     *
  * (c) 2015 Fair Isaac Corporation                     *
  *     author: Y. Colombani, 2015                      *
  *******************************************************!)

model translate
!@mc.msgdom translate
uses 'mmsystem'
declarations
 weekday:array(1..7) of string
 worder:array(1..7) of string
end-declarations
!@mc.msgid yes
!@mc.msgid no
 weekday::[_c("monday","tuesday","wednesday","thursday",
              "friday","saturday","sunday")]
 worder::[_c("first","second","third","fourth","fifth","sixth","seventh")]
 wd:=getweekday(date(SYS_NOW))
 writeln_("Today is ",_(weekday(wd)))
 writeln_("This is the ",_(worder(wd))," day of the week")
end-model
Parent Topic Mosel language: performing programming taks

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