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104 lines
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Adding a translation to GKrellM
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1) Extract the strings from the source
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In the gkrellm po directory, create the .po template (.pot):
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xgettext -k_ -kN_ ../src/*.c ../src/sysdeps/*.c -o po/gkrellm.pot
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or
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make enable_nls=1 messages
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2) Update or create .po files
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If there are any existing translations, XX.po files, then merge them:
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msgmerge --no-fuzzy-matching XX.po gkrellm.pot > XX.po.new
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mv XX.po.new XX.po
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or
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make enable_nls=1 merge
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or, if this is a new translation, copy the template:
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cp gkrellm.pot XX.po
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Note: after you've created your initial .po file, these xgettext and
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msgmerge operations can be done automatically from the top level
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gkrellm directory with the command:
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make msgmerge
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3) Add translations
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Edit XX.po to add translations for new strings, fix broken translations,
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and touch up fuzzy translations.
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4) Make and install GKrellM with i18n enabled
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If make is run from this directory instead of the top level dir, you must
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explicitely enable i18n in all the below examples by adding enable_nls=1
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to the make command:
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make enable_nls=1
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And for the install step:
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make install enable_nls=1
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i18n will be automatically enabled when make is run from the top level dir.
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In either case, a make install will for each XX.po file create a XX.mo file
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and copy it to:
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$LOCALEDIR/XX/LC_MESSAGES/gkrellm.mo
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If there is no LOCALEDIR environment variable, then the default install
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will be to:
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1) make run from the po directory:
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/usr/share/locale/XX/LC_MESSAGES/gkrellm.mo
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2) make run from the top level directory:
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$INSTALLROOT/share/locale/XX/LC_MESSAGES/gkrellm.mo
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where the default $INSTALLROOT is /usr. See the top level Makefile.
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But, if you want a different explicit install directory, do for example:
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make install LOCALEDIR=/usr/local/share/locale
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or (for bash)
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export LOCALEDIR=/usr/local/share/locale
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make install
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Other export lines:
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sh: export LOCALEDIR; LOCALEDIR=/usr/local/share/locale
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csh: setenv LOCALEDIR /usr/local/share/locale
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You can also specify the textdomain package name. From bash:
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make install PACKAGE=gkrellm2
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Using a translation
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A user must have localizations enabled for a translation to be used.
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To enable a localization, the LANG environment variable should be set
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via the command line or the shell login startup files.
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For example, to see the French translation, a user should be able to:
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From bash:
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export LANG=fr_FR
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or from csh
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setenv LANG fr_FR
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If fr_FR does not work, try fr_FR.ISO_8859-1
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