Re: [Phpwiki-talk] latest changes & todo

[Jan N. <ja...@gn...>]

Arno Hollosi <aho...@in...> writes:

> What else is there to do? Tasks I can think of:
> - update localized versions
> - write a locale/README (e.g. how to add your language -- Jan?)

Currently have not too much time on my hands, but here's a (bit
patched up) email I sent in response to a translation question.
All info should be there.  This would make a nice wiki page,
maintained by new translators AddNewLocale :-)


./locale/README:

From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <ja...@gn...>
Subject: Re: [Phpwiki-talk] translation
To: php...@li...
Cc: Arno Hollosi <aho...@in...>,  Olivier Kaloudoff <ka...@ka...>
Date: 14 Dec 2000 20:51:16 +0100
Organization: Jan at Appel

Olivier Kaloudoff <ka...@ka...> writes:

> 	I saw locale/translate.sh in the
> 1.1.9 tarball. I seems to be useful *after*
> translation.
> 
> 	But no docs about how to start
> translation for a new locale (fr).

Just copy the locale/po/phpwiki.pot to fr.po, alongside nl.po.  Then,
translate all the strings to french.  Emacs has a handy po translation
mode for you.

Most of the work, though, is in translating the pgsrc and template
files.  Easiest is to do:

    mkdir locale/fr
    cp -rv pgsrc locale/fr
    cp -rv templates locale/fr

You may want to change the names of some pgsrc files afterwards.  For
anything you don't know, look at the `nl' or `de' versions*.

After you've translated everything, you may want to check the result
of your efforts, run:

    ./locale/translate.sh

which generates the translation tables, the mo files**.  Then, edit

    ./lib/config.php

and change the lines that set $LANG to make phpwiki use your language,
to make them look like this:

   //  Select your language - default language "C": English
   // other languages available: Dutch "nl", Spanish "es", German "de"
   // $LANG="C";
   $LANG="fr";

Phpwiki should now speak french.

If you're unfamiliar with GNU gettext and po files, you may find some
information at http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/HTML/

If you succeed, you may also want to add instructions to this
translation doco for phpwiki ;-)

Good luck,
Jan.

*) you have to get the filenames for the templates right, e.g.
  
**)translate.sh is a simple script that tries to replace the usual
   `make po po-update'.  It actually does these things:

   * make the .pot file up to date
   * merge differences into all translated .po files
   * generate .mo files
   * generate legacy php3 translation dictionary [this is the hairiest
     part and should be dropped when we drop php3 support]

  -- 
  Jan Nieuwenhuizen <ja...@gn...> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
  http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien       | http://www.lilypond.org


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