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Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de> * Added a blurb to 'translation-help' about wrapped messages in po files
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HOWTO: Help with translations
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This document is here to guide you in helping translate pacman messages,
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libalpm messages, and the manpages for the entire pacman package.
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A quick note- the gettext website is a very useful guide to read before
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embarking on translation work, as it describes many of the commands in more
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detail than I will here:
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<http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/gettext.html>
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In addition, this site presents a small tutorial that I found useful:
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<http://oriya.sarovar.org/docs/gettext/>
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Translating Messages
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The message files are located in two directories in pacman- lib/libalpm/po/
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and src/pacman/po/. Each language has a .po file associated with it; the .pot
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file is the template file for creating new .po files and updating the messages
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in them when the code changes.
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First things first. You will need to run ./autogen.sh and ./configure in the
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base directory to generate the correct Makefiles. To update all the translation
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files, run this command:
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make update-po
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At this point, the .pot file is regenerated from the source code with an
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updated string list, and the existing po files are merged if necessary to add
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new messages or remove old ones. These po files can then either be hand edited,
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or modified with a tool such as gtranslator or kbabel.
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These steps make it easier to just update your language and not every po file.
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If you are working in the src/pacman tree, replace libalpm.pot with pacman.pot:
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make libalpm.pot-update
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make <po file>-update
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Making a new language is not too hard, but be sure to follow all the steps.
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You will have to do the following steps in both the lib/libalpm/po/ and
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src/pacman/po/ directories, substituting where appropriate. First, edit the
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LINGUAS file and add your new language code at the bottom. Next, run the
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following command, substituting 'libalpm.pot' or 'pacman.pot' depending on
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which directory you are currently working in:
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msginit -l <lang code> -o <lang code>.po -i <potfile>
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Look at the current message files for more guidance if necessary. Once you
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create the new language file, you may need to slightly modify the headers;
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try to make them look similar to the other .po file headers. In addition, for
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all new translations we would strongly recommend using UTF-8 encoding.
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Some other notes:
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msgid and msgstr 'variables' can be on as many lines as necessary. Line breaks are ignored- if you need a literal line break, use an '\n' in your string. The following two translations are equivalent:
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msgstr "This is a test translation"
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msgstr ""
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"This is a test translation"
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Translating Manpages
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(To Be Announced)
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