# HG changeset patch # User zas_ # Date 1262730363 0 # Node ID 357666e13b48c56c24ed53549d817b65d6c97bb4 # Parent d8e9d0cc640e6305b43459dd87472f0b9e51873a Update README about translations. diff -r d8e9d0cc640e -r 357666e13b48 po/README --- a/po/README Tue Jan 05 17:49:50 2010 +0000 +++ b/po/README Tue Jan 05 22:26:03 2010 +0000 @@ -1,11 +1,16 @@ Translators create a translation by creating the appropriate .po file in the /po -directory. Please see the gettext info pages for an overview and instructions. -Basically: Add your language code to the ALL_LINGUAS= line in configure.in, -then get started translating the strings in your ??.po file. Note: The strings -for debug output is intentionally not marked for translation. +directory. + +Please see the gettext info pages for an overview and instructions. -To update a specific translation, one may use intltool-update [lang] (ie. -intltool-update fr). +Basically: +- Add your language code to the LINGUAS file +- then get started translating the strings in your ??.po file. + +Note: The strings for debug output is intentionally not marked for translation. + +To update a specific translation: +- intltool-update [lang] (ie. intltool-update fr). To update all translation files, use make update-po. You should only use it when needed (before a release or when there were many changes in source code).