Version at: 23/02/2014, 01:33

#Extracting UI Strings

These instructions describe how to extract UI strings so that they can be translated. The original source of these instructions, stored on Assembla, is here: [1]




##Markup for internationalized strings in the code

In the code, whenever developers write strings that will have to be translated, they use a special function whose name consists of a double underscore. A script (CakePHP's "i18n extract" script) can later be run to scan the code and extract the strings that are passed to this function.

Examples, with the equivalent actions:

* __(‘some text’) => echo ‘some text’;
* __(‘some text’, true) => return ‘some text’;

The language used in the code will be English.

##Running cake i18n

* Open a console on a Linux machine or Linux virtual machine.
* Type : /var/http/tatoeba/cake/console/cake i18n
* Choose : E (Extract POT file from source)
* When asked if you want to merge all translations into a single file, say yes
* Type in the path to app: /home/tatoeba/tatoeba-www/app
* Type in the path to locale: /home/tatoeba/tatoeba-www/app/locale
* Choose a name for the file that will be generated (in this example, default.pot): default.pot
* Choose: Q (quit)

##Modifying the header

Before you upload the POT file, you may need to open it and change the header into this:

> msgid ""
> msgstr ""
> "Project-Id-Version: \n"
> "POT-Creation-Date: \n"
> "PO-Revision-Date: \n"
> "Last-Translator: \n"
> "Language-Team: \n"
> "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
> "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\n"
> "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"

Otherwise, Launchpad may reject the file.

##Uploading default.pot to Launchpad

Go to this URL:
 
https://translations.launchpad.net/tatoeba/trunk/+translations-upload

  [1]: https://www.assembla.com/spaces/tatoeba2/wiki/Internationalization

version at: 23/02/2014, 01:34

#Extracting UI Strings

These instructions describe how to extract UI strings so that they can be translated. The original source of these instructions, stored on Assembla, is here: [1]


##Markup for internationalized strings in the code

In the code, whenever developers write strings that will have to be translated, they use a special function whose name consists of a double underscore. A script (CakePHP's "i18n extract" script) can later be run to scan the code and extract the strings that are passed to this function.

Examples, with the equivalent actions:

* __(‘some text’) => echo ‘some text’;
* __(‘some text’, true) => return ‘some text’;

The language used in the code will be English.

##Running cake i18n

* Open a console on a Linux machine or Linux virtual machine.
* Type : /var/http/tatoeba/cake/console/cake i18n
* Choose : E (Extract POT file from source)
* When asked if you want to merge all translations into a single file, say yes
* Type in the path to app: /home/tatoeba/tatoeba-www/app
* Type in the path to locale: /home/tatoeba/tatoeba-www/app/locale
* Choose a name for the file that will be generated (in this example, default.pot): default.pot
* Choose: Q (quit)

##Modifying the header

Before you upload the POT file, you may need to open it and change the header into this:
 
msgid ""

msgstr ""

"Project-Id-Version: \n"

"POT-Creation-Date: \n"

"PO-Revision-Date: \n"

"Last-Translator: \n"

"Language-Team: \n"

"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"

"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\n"

"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"

Otherwise, Launchpad may reject the file.

##Uploading default.pot to Launchpad

Go to this URL:
 
https://translations.launchpad.net/tatoeba/trunk/+translations-upload

  [1]: https://www.assembla.com/spaces/tatoeba2/wiki/Internationalization

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