-In order to create or update a translatable file, run the following command
-in the directory i18n/:
+In order to create or update a translatable file, run the following
+command in the directory po/:
./update.sh xx
Quassel will automatically load these translation files based on the
system locale. Examples for valid codes: de, en_US
-You can open translation files with poedit for example and add/edit translated strings.
+You can open translation files with poedit for example and add/edit
+translated strings.
-The *.po files can and should be kept in sync with the source code by running
-update.sh regularly (existing translations won't be removed).
+The *.po files can and should be kept in sync with the source code by
+running update.sh regularly (existing translations won't be removed).
-NOTE: Remember to remove X-Virgin-Header line if you want to preserve your header.
+NOTE: Remember to remove X-Virgin-Header line if you want to preserve
+your header.
-Qt itself does not use the *.po files, but a compact binary format (*.qm).
-These files will automatically be generated at build time. By default, all
-languages will be built. To select languages, add -DLINGUAS="<languages>"
-to your cmake call, where <languages> is a space-separated list of language
-codes as explained above.
+Qt itself does not use the *.po files, but a compact binary format
+(*.qm). These files will automatically be generated at build time. By
+default, all languages will be built. To select languages, use
+environment variable LINGUAS to specify superset of languages you want
+to build in. As you can see in example there we will build only Czech
+German and French translations.
-NOTE: You'll need lconvert installed with your Qt in order to generate
- translation files. Some distributions don't package that tool;
- in that case you won't get translations.
+EXAMPLE:
+$ export LINGUAS="cs de fr"
+$ cmake /path/to/source
+NOTE: You'll need lupdate, lconvert, lrelease installed with your Qt in
+ order to generate translation files. Some distributions don't
+ package that tool; in that case you won't get translations.
+
+
+The .pot file can be regenerated with `./update-pot.sh`