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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
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
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
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
--default-domain=squirrelmail/po/squirrelmail \
-C -j squirrelmail/functions/*.php
+
+
+
+$ Id $