Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Finding malayalam translation file.

[David B. <dav...@gm...>]

To add a translation e.g. ml.po, start with po/tuxmath.pot (*.pot stands
for po template) and edit, preferably with a dedicated po file editor to
avoid syntax errors but any text editor will do.  Make sure to fill out the
authorship header info properly.  Put ml.po alongside the other po files.
Also, add the new language code to po/LINGUAS.

Important - the po files must be encoded in UTF-8.

Next time you run "sudo make install", the machine-readable *.gmo file will
be generated and installed.

To test the translation, run tuxmath with the desired locale set, e.g.
"LANG=ml_ML.UTF-8 tuxmath" or similar.  You need to have the desired locale
installed on your machine for this to work.  IIRC, sometimes you need to
set the LANGUAGE environmental variable instead of LANG.

We can make this a GCI task.
On Nov 12, 2011 1:25 AM, "Haris Ibrahim K. V." <blu...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thank you all for helping out with the destination of the translation
> files.
>
> On 11 November 2011 14:30, David Bruce <dav...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> Hi Haris,
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Haris Ibrahim K. V. <blu...@gm...
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Please tell me where I can find the translation files in tuxmath and
>>> tuxtype. Especially the malayalam translation file.
>>>
>>
>> For tuxmath and tuxtype, the translation files are po/*.po in the source
>> tree.  Offhand, I think malayalam is ml.po but I might have the
>> abbreviation wrong.   Tuxtype also has language-specific "themes" with word
>> lists and sometimes xml lessons that are under e.g. data/themes/malayalam/.
>>
>
> However it seems that there is no malayalam translation file for tuxmath.
> Not in the po directory nor in data/. (I found one for tuxtype called
> ml.po). I'm not sure if what I'm asking would be correct, but is it
> possible to add a ml.po file that holds malayalam translations to tuxmath?
> I'm not sure how it can be done.
>
> And if possible, it could be put up as a translation task for GCI. I could
> review it.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Haris Ibrahim K. V.
>