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