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author	Andre Heinecke <andre.heinecke@intevation.de>
date	Thu, 31 Jul 2014 12:56:26 +0200
parents	71cdd4b2f038
children	96ecd345c961

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822 71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	2 Localization of the GNU/Linux Installer
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	3 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	4
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	5 The GNU/Linux Installer uses a simple custom i18n implementation for
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	6 localization. Currently English (default) and German messages are
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	7 supported:
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	8
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	9 All messages in the Installer are written in English, a associative
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	10 array L10N_DE holds a German translations for the message strings.
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	11
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	12 If locale is set to any de_* localization (following the same
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	13 semantics as GNU gettext) and a German translation for the particular
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	14 message is available it will be printed in German, otherwise the
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	15 original English message will be used.
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	16
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	17
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	18 Relevant files
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	19 --------------
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	20
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	21 * linux-installer.inc.in :
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	22
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	23 Linux Installer Template, written in bash. l10n-enabled messages
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	24 are printed using the function "getxt" or "fatal" (which in turn
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	25 uses getxt for output). The semantics are these of printf and all
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	26 messages are in English.
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	27
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	28 * linux-installer.l10n-de :
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	29
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	30 This file contains the associative array L10N_DE which has the
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	31 English messages as used in linux-installer.inc.in as keys and the
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	32 corresponding German strings as values.
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	33
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	34 * getxt-gen-l10n-array.sh :
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	35
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	36 A tool to update the file linux-installer.l10n-de. Detailed usage
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	37 is described in the commends at the head of the file. It performs
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	38 the following steps:
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	39
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	40 1. collect all message strings used with "getxt" (or "fatal") in the
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	41 source file.
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	42
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	43 2. sort and remove any duplicates
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	44
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	45 3. merge with existing translations in the array file
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	46
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	47 4. write updated array to array file
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	48
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	49
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	50 How to update translations
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	51 --------------------------
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	52
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	53 When any messages in "linux-installer.inc.in" were changed or added
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	54 the array file "linux-installer.l10n-de" needs to be updated:
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	55
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	56 1. Edit "linux-installer.inc.in" (obviously)
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	57
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	58 2. Update the array file using getxt-gen-l10n-array.sh in the
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	59 packaging source directory (the directory containing this README):
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	60
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	61 $ ./getxt-gen-l10n-array.sh linux-installer.inc.in L10N_DE linux-installer.l10n-de
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	62
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	63 the associative array "L10N_DE" in "linux-installer.l10n-de" will
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	64 now contain entries for all new or changed messaged with empty
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	65 strings for the German translations.
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	66
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	67 CAVEAT: this means that if you change a message the translation
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	68 for the old message will be removed from "linux-installer.l10n-de"!
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	69 If you (slightly) change messages instead of adding or removing you
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	70 might want to keep a copy of the old version of
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	71 "linux-installer.l10n-de", so you can use the old translations as a
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	72 reference.
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	73
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	74 3. Edit "linux-installer.l10n-de" and add the missing translations.
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	75 They are best found by searching for empty strings, which are
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	76 denoted by two consecutive quotation marks: "" in your editor.
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	77
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	78 That's all. Don't forget to commit "linux-installer.l10n-de" along
71cdd4b2f038 Added documentation on l10n of the linux installer on how to update. Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> parents: diff changeset	79 with your changes to "linux-installer.inc.in".

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