# HG changeset patch # User zas_ # Date 1262730363 0 # Node ID 4739649764030e76f8dbf97a0c3b6c8855f35022 # Parent b0352818977b7d1f366344f545b4b3943bae3c16 Update README about translations. diff -r b0352818977b -r 473964976403 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).