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diff --git a/docs/i18n.md b/docs/i18n.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..226a406c2 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/i18n.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +# General +Translations are saved in the folder po/ for each module and application. You find the reference in po/templates/<package>.pot. The actual translation files can be found at po/[lang]/[package].po . + +In order to use the commands below you need to have the _gettext'' utilities (''msgcat'', ''msgfmt'', ''msgmerge_) installed on your system. + +# Rebuild po files +If you want to rebuild the translations after you made changes to a package this is an easy way: + + ./build/i18n-scan.pl applications/[application] > applications/[application]/po/templates/[application_basename].pot + ./build/i18n-update.pl applications/[application]/po + + Example: + ./build/i18n-scan.pl applications/luci-app-firewall > applications/luci-app-firewall/po/templates/firewall.pot + ./build/i18n-update.pl applications/luci-app-firewall/po + (note that the directory argument can be omitted for i18n-update.pl to update all apps) + +*Note:* Some packages share translation files, in this case you need to scan through all their folders. The first command from above should then be: + + ./build/i18n-scan.pl applications/[package-1] applications/[package-2] applications/[package-n] > [location of shared template]/[application].pot |