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User Interface
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Below are basic instructions for adding and maintaining Gettext translations
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for Diffuse. The installer will discover .po files in this directory and
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compile them into the corresponding .mo files.
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The example commands below show how to create and manage the Japanese
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translations. Replace all instances of "ja" with the code for the desired
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language.
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Creating a new translation
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1. Create a .pot file for Diffuse:
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$ xgettext -s -o diffuse.pot -L Python ../src/usr/bin/diffuse
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2. Create a .po file for the translation:
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$ msginit -l ja -o ja.po -i diffuse.pot
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3. Manually complete in the translations in the .po file:
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$ vi ja.po
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Updating an existing translation
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1. Move the existing .po file:
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$ mv ja.po old.po
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2. Create an empty .po file for the translation:
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$ xgettext -s -o diffuse.pot -L Python ../src/usr/bin/diffuse
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$ msginit -l ja -o empty.po -i diffuse.pot
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3. Merge the old translations:
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$ msgmerge old.po empty.po -o ja.po
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4. Clean up:
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$ rm old.po empty.po
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5. Manually complete in the translations in the .po file:
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$ vi ja.po
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Validate a translation
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1. Attempt to compile the .po file and note any warnings:
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$ msgfmt -c -v ja.po
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System Integration
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Localised text for the system menu (name and comment) should be manually
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added to the desktop file:
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../src/usr/share/applications/diffuse.desktop
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Localised text for the Microsoft Windows installer is stored in separate ISL
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files. Copy the English version (../windows-installer/en.isl) and replace the
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text to the right of each equal sign.
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Documentation
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=============
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Documentation is stored in DocBook format. Start a new translation of the
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manual by copying the English version of the DocBook manual
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(../src/usr/share/gnome/help/diffuse/C/diffuse.xml) and then edit the
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contents.
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The DocBook manual is converted to HTML for Windows and Unix man pages for
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POSIX platforms. The conversion tools insert some English text that gets
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localised using search and replace. Manually add new search and replace rules
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to these files:
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../windows-installer/translations.txt
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../utils/translations.txt
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The format of each line is: \<language id\>:\<English text\>:\<localised text\>
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