Added a small script to help when creating charsets code.

[squirrelmail.git] / doc / translating.txt

diff --git a/doc/translating.txt b/doc/translating.txt
index 9df748b36acc21081c45e0b8e463529729275697..dee35a30d37b5e15b1ecc9c8965baf946ce94e5a 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/translating.txt
+++ b/doc/translating.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ a) You must have gettext installed. If it is not installed you can
 
 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/.
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ c) To translate the actual strings fill inn the msgstr after each
 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
 ---------------------------
@@ -46,7 +49,7 @@ a) There should always be an updated template containing all strings
 
 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
@@ -61,8 +64,10 @@ b) Rung msgfmt again to create a new binary file.
 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