R3600/modules/miscutil/i18n9cd954f40a45maint-1.1
R3600/modules/miscutil/i18n
9cd954f40a45maint-1.1
i18n
i18n
README
README
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This directory contains all the translations of CDSware in all the supported languages.
For each language whose 2 letters codename is <xx>, a file named <xx>.po exists, and contains a list of sentences to translate. This file is in GNU Gettext format. Please consult the Gettext documentation for more information.
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/>
- What are all those files?
The directory contains a few scripts (i18n-*.py) and the actual translation files.
- <xx>.po files are the master translations. These are the files containing the actual work of the translators
- <xx>.mo are compiled translation files. They are recomputed during build time, and installed in the target directory
- cdsware.pot is the template containing all the requested translations, fetched from the source code.
- compendium-<xx>.po is a base of known translations, extracted from messages.py. It is only necessary during the transition from the previous system.
- Adding a new language file
To add support for a new language <xx>, do:
make update-po-files cp cdsware.pot <xx>.po
...and fill in the translations in file <xx>.po.
- Synchronizing the translations with the code
When some sentences have been modified or added in the code, and the translations must be updated accordingly, do:
make update-po-files
...and update all the files. To have an idea of the files requiring modifications, run:
make check-translations
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