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Adding a translation to gperiodic
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1) Extract the strings from the source
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In the gperiodic top level directory, create the .po template (.pot):
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xgettext -k_ -kN_ *.c *.h -o po/gperiodic.pot
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2) Update or create .po files
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If there are any existing translations, XX.po files, then merge them:
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msgmerge XX.po gperiodic.pot > XX.po.new
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Or, if this is a new translation, copy the template:
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cp gperiodic.pot XX.po
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Edit XX.po to add translations for new strings, fix broken translations,
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and touch up fuzzy translations.
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4) Make and install gperiodic with i18n enabled
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If make is run from this directory instead of the top level dir, you must
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explicitely enable i18n in all the below examples by adding enable_nls=1
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And for the install step:
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make install enable_nls=1
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i18n will be automatically enabled when make is run from the top level dir.
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In either case, a make install will for each XX.po file create a XX.mo file
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$LOCALEDIR/XX/LC_MESSAGES/gperiodic.mo
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If there is no LOCALEDIR environment variable, then the default install
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/usr/share/locale/XX/LC_MESSAGES/gperiodic.mo
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But, if you want a different explicit install directory, do for example:
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make install LOCALEDIR=/usr/local/share/locale
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export LOCALEDIR=/usr/local/share/locale
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sh: export LOCALEDIR; LOCALEDIR=/usr/local/share/locale
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csh: setenv LOCALEDIR /usr/local/share/locale
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A user must have localizations enabled for a translation to be used.
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To enable a localization, the LANG environment variable should be set
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via the command line or the shell login startup files.
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For example, to see the Swedish translation, a user should be able to:
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