Language Administration

This page lists often used commands, sorted by components. Collected from several places in Translation.

Intro

As we get translations from several resources, we run basic checks before committing! Fix them or report them to the LAST TRANSLATOR, if possible.

In theory each time a user visible message changes, a new pot file should be created and merged into all po files. Sometimes new po files are requested.

Notes on command components

LANG=C

serves to get the messages in english to forward them to the translator.

$LOCALE

replace it by the desired locale.

Components

Glossary

Check

# 1 file:
msgfmt -c --statistics po/glossary/$LOCALE.po
# OR all files:
for i in po/glossary/*.po; do echo -n "$i:"; LANG=C msgfmt -c --statistics $i ; done

Update

# 1. make pot:
po/glossary/txt-to-pot.sh po/glossary/gnc-glossary.txt > po/glossary/gnc-glossary.pot
# 2. update glossaries:
for i in po/glossary/*.po; do echo -n "$i:"; LANG=C msgmerge --previous -U $i po/glossary/gnc-glossary.pot ; done

New language

cd po/glossary/
# 1. make pot:
./txt-to-pot.sh gnc-glossary.txt > gnc-glossary.pot
# 2. add a new glossary:
msginit --no-translator -l $LOCALE
# DON'T FORGET: add it to CMakeLists.txt
cd ../..

Program

Program