X-Git-Url: https://git.quassel-irc.org/?p=quassel.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=po%2FREADME.Translations;h=84e8f2a0fa8af38358b85bdf4fe360c06b73cd74;hp=91a6185197869e624a4e027c9243cc79dddbd84a;hb=2f44b5cfab232dd0f0a3697709a2691d748ad301;hpb=5d37c2a7043e445df6d6ce5d2eae60fbe9b783c7 diff --git a/po/README.Translations b/po/README.Translations index 91a61851..84e8f2a0 100644 --- a/po/README.Translations +++ b/po/README.Translations @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -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 @@ -8,25 +8,31 @@ if needed, may be suffixed by a country code according to ISO 3166). 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, 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. -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. EXAMPLE: $ export LINGUAS="cs de fr" $ cmake /path/to/source -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. +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. + -Regenerating .pot file: -lupdate ../src -ts quassel.ts && lconvert -i quassel.ts -o quassel.po && rm quassel.ts && mv quassel.po quassel.pot +The .pot file can be regenerated with this command: +lupdate ../src -ts quassel.ts && lconvert -i quassel.ts -o quassel.po \ + && msguniq -o quassel.pot quassel.po && rm quassel.ts quassel.po