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i18n and Russian translation
| author | Stefano Rivera <stefano@rivera.za.net> |
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| date | Tue, 08 Mar 2011 12:29:14 +0200 |
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| 1 These are notes on internationalization and translation. They are | |
| 2 suitable for Unix like systems. As prerequisites you need `gettext' | |
| 3 being installed and (if you want to translate) some editor for | |
| 4 gettext catalogs like `poedit' or `virtaal'. In case you are familiar | |
| 5 with gettext ".po" format any text editor will do. | |
| 6 | |
| 7 | |
| 8 == How do I translate suspended-sentence into my language? == | |
| 9 | |
| 10 First of all look if there is already translation catalog for | |
| 11 your locale in `po/' subdirectory. The file should be named like | |
| 12 `<locale>.po' where <locale> is the language code for your locale. | |
| 13 For example, catalog for German is called `de.po'. If it is there | |
| 14 you can start translating. | |
| 15 | |
| 16 If there is no file for your locale you need to generate it. To do | |
| 17 this navigate to the `po/' directory in terminal and type command | |
| 18 | |
| 19 msginit -l <locale> | |
| 20 | |
| 21 where <locale> is two-letters-language-code you need. Then translate | |
| 22 generated file using your preferred editor. | |
| 23 | |
| 24 To get new translation worked you need to compile and install it by | |
| 25 executing `install-po.sh' script. | |
| 26 | |
| 27 | |
| 28 == How can I mark the string in code as translatable? == | |
| 29 | |
| 30 Just surround it with _( and ) like | |
| 31 "Hello, world" -> _("Hello, world!") | |
| 32 | |
| 33 _() is a function that I placed in `gamelib/i18n.py' file, so you | |
| 34 might want to import it first. | |
| 35 | |
| 36 from gamelib.i18n import _ | |
| 37 | |
| 38 And don't forget to update message catalogs with new strings. To do | |
| 39 that just execute `update-po.sh' script. It collects all translatable | |
| 40 strings from files that are specified in `po/POTFILES'. Make sure file | |
| 41 you worked on is in there. | |
| 42 |