diff options
| -rw-r--r-- | po/README.md | 24 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/po/README.md b/po/README.md index cafb5cf365..d85b5fa723 100644 --- a/po/README.md +++ b/po/README.md @@ -40,6 +40,30 @@ language, so that the l10n coordinator only needs to interact with one person per language. +Core translation +---------------- +The core translation is the smallest set of work that must be completed +for a new language translation. Because there are more than 5000 messages +in the template message file "po/git.pot" that need to be translated, +this is not a piece of cake for the contributor for a new language. + +The core template message file which contains a small set of messages +will be generated in "po-core/core.pot" automatically by running a helper +program named "git-po-helper" (described later). + + git-po-helper init --core XX.po + +After translating the generated "po-core/XX.po", you can merge it to +"po/XX.po" using the following commands: + + msgcat po-core/XX.po po/XX.po -s -o /tmp/XX.po + mv /tmp/XX.po po/XX.po + git-po-helper update XX.po + +Edit "po/XX.po" by hand to fix "fuzzy" messages, which may have misplaced +translated messages and duplicate messages. + + Translation Process Flow ------------------------ The overall data-flow looks like this: |