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wxWidgets translator guide
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This note is addressed to wxWidgets translators.
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First of all, here is what you will need:
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1. GNU gettext package version 0.10.35 or later (NB: earlier versions were
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known to have serious bugs)
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a) for Unix systems you can download gettext-0.10.tar.gz from any GNU
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mirror (RPMs and DEBs are also available from the usual places)
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b) for Windows you can download the precompiled binaries from
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www.wxwidgets.org or install PoEdit (poedit.sourceforge.net) and
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add <installdir>/poEdit/bin to your path (so it can find xgettext).
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2. A way to run a program recursively on an entire directory from the command
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line:
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a) for Unix systems, this is done in locale/Makefile using the standard find
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command and xargs which is installed on almost all modern Unices. If you
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are unlucky enough to not have xargs, you can use the -exec option of find
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instead.
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b) for Win32 systems you can use either Cygwin or MinGW. If you don't have
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those it is less trivial: if you have 4DOS/4NT/bash, that's
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fine, but you'd have to use some kind of "for /s" loop with the
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command.com/cmd.exe.
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3. (at least read) access to the subversion is not necessary strictly speaking, but
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will make things a lot easier for you and others.
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Now a brief overview of the process of translations (please refer to GNU
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gettext documentation for more details). It happens in several steps:
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1. the strings to translate are extracted from the C++ sources using xgettext
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program into a wxstd.pot file which is a "text message catalog"
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2. this new wxstd.pot file (recreated each time some new text messages are added
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to wxWidgets) is merged with existing translations in another .po file (for
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example, de.po) and replaces this file (this is done using the program
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msgmerge)
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3. the resulting .po file must be translated
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4. finally, msgformat must be run to produce a .mo file: "binary message catalog"
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How does it happen in practice? There is a Makefile in the "locale"
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directory which will do almost everything (except translations) for you. i.e.
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just type "make lang.po" to create or update the message catalog for 'lang'.
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Then edit the resulting lang.po and make sure that there are no empty or fuzzy
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translations left (empty translations are the ones with msgstr "", fuzzy
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translations are those which have the word "fuzzy" in a comment just above
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them). Then type "make lang.mo" which will create the binary message catalog.
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Under Windows (If you don't have Cygwin or MinGW), you should execute the
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commands manually, please have a look at Makefile to see what must be done.
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For platform specific translations, .po files such as 'locale/msw/it.po' can be
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used to provide translations that override the usual ones in 'locale/it.po'.
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The generated .mo files are then installed under the names such as 'wxmsw.mo'
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alongside the generic 'wxstd.mo'.
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A new platform specific translation should be added to a section such as this
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in wx.bkl:
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<gettext-catalogs id="locale_msw">
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<srcdir>$(SRCDIR)/locale/msw</srcdir>
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<catalog-name>wxmsw</catalog-name>
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<linguas>it</linguas>
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<install-to>$(LOCALEDIR)</install-to>
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</gettext-catalogs>
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=== EOF ===
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Author: VZ
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$Log$
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Revision 1.7 2005/08/12 15:34:01 MW
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Typo
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Revision 1.6 2005/08/12 15:29:47 MW
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Translate '&Help' to '&' for italian Windows only
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Revision 1.5 2004/10/22 19:12:59 KH
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*** empty log message ***
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Revision 1.4 2004/05/04 08:26:58 JS
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Name change replacements
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Revision 1.3 2003/11/18 16:37:11 DS
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Updated translation technote to mention Makefile usage under Windows.
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Revision 1.2 2002/07/03 15:01:26 VZ
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typos and other doc corrections from Olly Betts (patch 573738)
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Revision 1.1 2000/03/07 10:53:53 VZ
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technote about translations added
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