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a) You must have gettext installed. If it is not installed you can
- download the soources from
+ download the sources from
<URL:ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gettext/>.
b) Find the language code for the language you are going to translate
into. A list of language codes can be found at
- <URL:http://www.dsv.su.se/~jpalme/ietf/language-codes.html>. If
+ <URL:http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/langhome.html>. If
there is a 2 letter code for the language, use this.
Create a directory squirrelmail/locale/language_code/LC_MESSAGES/.
Copy squirrelmail/po/squirrelmail.po into this directory. This is the
file that is going to be translated.
-c) To translate the actual strings fill inn the msgstr after each
- msgid with the appropiate translation. There are a few tools which
- kan make this job a bit easier at
+c) To translate the actual strings fill in the msgstr after each
+ msgid with the appropriate translation. There are a few tools which
+ can make this job a bit easier at
<URL:http://i18n.kde.org/translation-howto/gui-specialized-apps.html>.
Convert the translated squirrelmail.po into a binary file by
d) Add the language name and language code to the array at the top of
squirrelmail/functions/i18n.php.
+There is also a small script in the po/ directory that can help in
+creating charset mappings from the mappings files that are provided by
+the Unicode consortium.
2. Maintaining translations
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-the text strings in the program will change over time. This means that
-strings that are already translated is no longer used and new strings
-are added. Therefore it is neccessary to maintain the translations.
+The text strings in the program will change over time. This means that
+strings that are already translated are no longer used and new strings
+are added. Therefore it is necessary to maintain the translations.
a) There should always be an updated template containing all strings
in SquirrelMail in squirrelmail/squirrelmail.po. To merge all new
msgmerge squirrelmail/locale/language/LC_MESSAGES/squirrelmail.po \
squirrelmail/po/squirrelmail.po > \
-squirrelmail/locale/language/LC_MESSAGES/squirrelmail.po
+squirrelmail/locale/language/LC_MESSAGES/squirrelmail.po.new
This should keep all strings that are unchanged and comment out all
strings that are no longer in use. You might want to make a copy
before doing this.
-b) Rung msgfmt again to create a new binary file.
+b) Run msgfmt again to create a new binary file.
3. Updating the template
This script comes from Serek:
#!/bin/bash
-xgettext --keyword=_ -keyword=N_ --default-domain=squirrelmail/po/squirrelmail\
--C squirrelmail/src/*.php
-xgettext --keyword=_ -keyword=N_ --default-domain=squirrelmail/po/squirrelmail\
--C -j squirrelmail/functions/*.php
+xgettext --keyword=_ -keyword=N_ \
+ --default-domain=squirrelmail/po/squirrelmail \
+ -C squirrelmail/src/*.php
+xgettext --keyword=_ -keyword=N_ \
+ --default-domain=squirrelmail/po/squirrelmail \
+ -C -j squirrelmail/functions/*.php
+
+
+
+$ Id $