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| author | Goffi <goffi@goffi.org> |
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| date | Wed, 21 Sep 2022 22:20:43 +0200 |
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| 69 | 1 First of all, thank you for helping translating SàT :) |
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| 223 | 3 NOTE: *.po files are in i18n directory |
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| 69 | 5 To translate a file, you can use a dedicated tool as the excellent gtranslator: |
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7 - use the template .pot file (e.g. sat.pot) and name it to your translated language (e.g. fr.po for french); you can preferably generate a new template directly from the source with the following command (eventually adapted, the following command use zsh's globbing syntax), launched from root sat dir after having emptied the build directory: |
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8 > xgettext -L python -d sat --keyword=D_ -p i18n **/*(.py|.tac|primitivus)(.) **/jp(.) |
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10 - then to start a new translation, copy i18n/sat.pot to your language file, e.g. cd i18n; cp sat.pot fr.po |
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| 12 - use the choosed tool (a simple text editor can be sufficient) to edit the file: e.g. gtranslator fr.po | |
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| 14 - once you translation is finished (or partly finished: the english sentences are used if there is no translation), you can test them by generating a binary and moving it to the right place with the following commands: | |
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15 > msgfmt -o sat.mo fr.po |
| 69 | 16 > mv sat.mo i18n/fr/LC_MESSAGES/sat.mo |
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| 18 - if you have already a translation, and want to update it (new translations to do, some sentences have changed), you can use the following commands: | |
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19 > msgmerge fr.po sat.pot > fr2.po |
| 69 | 20 and if everything is allright |
| 21 > mv fr2.po fr.po | |
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| 771 | 23 Don't forget that you can (and should !) use the version-control system (mercurial, the "hg" command) to keep history of you translations. |
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| 25 You can check the fr.po file to see how it's done and to know what to put while you set up you translation tool. | |
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27 Thank you again for you help, don't forget to give me your name and contact email so I can credit you, and don't hesitate to contact me if you need help (goffi@goffi.org, or the sat XMPP room at sat@chat.jabberfr.org). |
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