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TRANSLATIONS
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Translating udevil doesn't require any special tools - just a text editor.
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To create a translation of udevil for your language, follow these steps.
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1) Install build dependencies, download the udevil source code tarball, and
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extract it (see README - BUILD).
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2) Open a terminal and enter the source code subdirectory 'po'
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3) Generate a udevil.pot file:
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intltool-update --pot
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4) Create a .po file for your language. This example uses French (fr) -
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change 'fr' in the examples below to your language code:
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cp udevil.pot fr.po # create a new po file
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5) Open fr.po in your text editor. Complete the comments at the top - for
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example, change "FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR." to your name, email
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address, and the current year. Be sure to set charset=UTF-8 in the
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Content-Type line.
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6) Translate each msgid into the corresponding msgstr. (The program poedit
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has also been suggested as a convenient way to edit po files.)
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7) Open po/LINGUAS in your text editor and add a line for your language code.
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8) cd into the directory containing configure and run make normally:
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cd ..
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./configure
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make
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If necessary, correct any syntax errors or warnings produced by make
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relating to your .po file and run make again.
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9) Test your translation by installing and running udevil:
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sudo make install
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udevil --help
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To start udevil with a particular locale:
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LANG=fr_FR.utf8 udevil --help
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10) Once translations are the way you want them, release your translated .po
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file:
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If you are familiar with github, you can clone the udevil repo and do a
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pull request. https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests/
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OR, add the .po file to a public gist https://gist.github.com/ or host
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it elsewhere, then open a new issue asking for your file to be merged into
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the source: https://github.com/IgnorantGuru/udevil/issues/new
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OR, email your .po file: http://igurublog.wordpress.com/contact-ignorantguru/
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11) Translated strings will change occassionally as new udevil versions are
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released. To update your translation:
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Generate a udevil.pot file:
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intltool-update --pot
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Then merge the new strings with the already translated ones:
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intltool-update --dist fr
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OR, if you don’t want to overwrite fr.po initially, you can merge into a
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new test file:
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intltool-update --dist --output-file=fr-test.po fr
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Then complete any missing or fuzzy translations in the .po file, and repeat
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steps 8 through 10.
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