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Releases have never shipped the translated catalogs, so Opus only shows translations when someone installs catalogs by hand.

Changes

• Building: catalogs/catalogs.sh build compiles every catalogs/<language>/<name>.ct with FlexCat, using the matching .cd under source/, into catalogs/bin/<language>/, which git ignores. Each catalog is named after its .cd (XADopus.catalog), except font.cd, which gives viewfont.catalog. A catalog is only recompiled when it is missing or older than its .ct or .cd. FlexCat's exit code 5 (warnings about untranslated strings) counts as success. The script replaces the hand-written, Amiga-only catalogs/Makefile.
• Makefile: make <target> catalogs runs the build. release-package runs it too, then stages the catalogs under their ## language names (ISO-8859-1, e.g. espa\xf1ol, as locale.library spells them) and adds Catalogs/<language>/ at the archive root.
  • Staging happens in the container's /tmp, because macOS volumes, including Docker bind mounts, refuse ISO-8859-1 file names.
  • LHa for UNIX normally converts file names and fails on those bytes. --system-kanji-code=utf8 --archive-kanji-code=utf8 makes it store them unchanged. This also works with the older LHa in the AROS images, which has no latin1 option.
• Installer: one askoptions question lists the 11 languages. It preselects the Installer's @language and any language that already has LOCALE:Catalogs/<lang>/dopus.catalog, then copies each chosen language to LOCALE:Catalogs/<lang>.
  • The target is LOCALE:, not DOpus5:Catalogs, because dopus5.library opens its catalog when the library is first opened. That is often from DOpus5:C/LoadDB or LoadDOpusLib, whose PROGDIR: is DOpus5:C, so a catalog in DOpus5:Catalogs would often be missed. ViewFont also lives in DOpus5:C.
  • The script stays ISO-8859-1.
• CI: the AROS images have no FlexCat, so the AROS build jobs first compile the catalogs in the os3 image. release-package then finds them up to date.
• Test: a new InstallerTests case checks that the installer's two language lists (the choices and P_CATALOG_LANGUAGE) match the shipped ## language names in the same order, and that #cat-count matches their number.
• Docs: AmigaGuide Installation section (58.22), README, and a ChangeLog [dopus5 next] entry.

Verification

• All 199 catalogs compile in the os4 image. Reading the STRS chunks back shows the ISO-8859-1 text unchanged (no UTF-8).
• make os3 release-package builds an archive with Catalogs/ holding 11 languages (211 entries) and the raw ISO-8859-1 names. The packaged Install DOpus5 matches the source byte for byte apart from @BUILD@.
• In the x86_64-aros image, catalogs.sh build skips the prebuilt catalogs without FlexCat, then staging and lha with the raw-name flags work. When a catalog is out of date, it stops with a clear error.
• python3 -m unittest archive/tests/test_basedata_default_drawers.py: all 17 tests pass. The new test fails when two languages are swapped in one list. shellcheck reports nothing.

Not yet run on a real Installer. The new step (askoptions, @language, while, makedir of LOCALE:Catalogs/<lang>) still needs one run on OS 3.2 before release. Whether the AROS Installer supports these is also unknown.

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