Localization:

Tkgate has support for several different languages. Each distribution of tkgate should include all of the langauge files that are available at the time the distribution was created. If you are unable to find the support file in your tkgate distribution, or if there are missing messages for your locale, you can download the latest version from here:

	Catalan (tkgate-ca.tgz)
	Czech (tkgate-cs.tgz)
	English (tkgate-en.tgz)
	French (tkgate-fr.tgz)
	German (tkgate-de.tgz)
	Italian (tkgate-it.tgz)
	Japanese (tkgate-ja.tgz)
	Polish (tkgate-pl.tgz)
	Spanish (tkgate-es.tgz)
	Welsh (tkgate-cy.tgz)

To install a language distribution, "cd" to the tkgate library directory and extract the contents of the file. For example to install the German distribution when tkgate is installed in /usr/X11R6/lib/tkgate, you would do:

% su
Password:
# cd /usr/X11R6/lib/tkgate
# gunzip < /tmp/tkgate-de.tgz | tar xf -
#

To run tkgate under a non-English locale you can either set the environment variable "LANG" to the language code for your language, for example "fr" for French (note that tkgate only looks at the first two characters of the LANG variable value). An alternative method is to start up tkgate using the "-L ??" switch where "??" is the two character code for the language.

Special instructions for Japanese: Japanese is now supported only using tcl/tk 8.3 or later. It may still be possible to use tcl/tk 8.0jp but this is no longer recommended. To obtain Japanese support it is necessary to change the config.h file. Set the value of TKGATE_LANG in this file to "ujp". You will then need to run the configure script and recompile.

To use the Japanese support, it is necessary to install and run kinput2 and to set several environment variables. Then make sure that the LANG environment variable is set to a fully specified locale such as "ja_JP.EUC", and that the enviornment variable XMODIFIERS is set to "@im=kinput2". To create and edit Japanese comments, you can then type "Ctl-O" to toggle the kinput2 window while editing a comment.

Other Languages: If your native language is not one of the languages listed above, donations of additional language files are appreciated.