X-Git-Url: https://git.quassel-irc.org/?p=quassel.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=po%2FREADME.Translations;h=d495525aa411f4b1c3962b3d5fe196de2c34127e;hp=e6a08bf418015a69fb8335346f6ecce9698419fe;hb=5d3ba981e213f5d83ab57df9e06c87a9513f19d9;hpb=df78124c6ca13a53bcd8dca5ad7e63742327043c diff --git a/po/README.Translations b/po/README.Translations index e6a08bf4..d495525a 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 po/: +In order to create or update a translatable file, run the following +command in the directory po/: ./update.sh xx @@ -8,25 +8,36 @@ 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. - -Regenerating .pot file (requires ``Translate Toolkit´´): -lupdate ../src -ts quassel.ts && ts2po -P --duplicates=msgctxt -i quassel.ts -o quassel.pot && rm quassel.ts +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 is regenerated using `./update-pot.sh` and can be pushed +to Transifex via `tx push -s`. +Note that as of Feb 2016 this is done automatically by nightly runs of +scripts/tx-sync.sh which pushes an updated quassel.pot to a location +that is fetched by Transifex on regular intervals. This location is +currently configured as + and +can be updated at https://www.transifex.com/ald/quassel/content/ → "Auto +update resources".