Plugin Translations
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Run from plugin main directory:
ant pot
ant poimport
ant pomerge
ant lang
Detailed Version
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* To kick off the translation of the plugin it is SVN committed.
After a day the translatable strings are visible at Launchpad
(https://translations.launchpad.net/josm/trunk/+pots/josm).
* After the Java code or the plugin description in build.xml was
changed, you need to run "ant pot". That creates/updates the
template file po/plugin.pot.
* Download the latest translations from Launchpad and copy them into
the directory po with "ant poimport". This uses the version that is
updated once a day. For a more recent version you need to request a
download from
https://translations.launchpad.net/josm/trunk/+pots/josm/+export.
Then run "ant -Dpoimport.tarball=URL poimport", replace URL with the
translation download URL.
* Remove all untranslated strings and other translations with
"ant pomerge".
* Create the language files in the data directory with "ant lang".
* SVN commit plugin changes, SVN update plugin directory, run
"ant dist" to create a new plugin release, SVN commit new plugin
release (../../dist/plugin.jar). "ant dist" will add the
translations of the plugin description to the manifest.
Additions to plugin build.xml:
#. Plugin ${ant.project.name}
#: build.xml:1
msgid "${plugin.description}"
msgstr ""
Local Translation
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To translate the strings locally, e.g. to check that they make sense:
* ant pot
* LL is a language code, CC is an optional country code
* If there is no PO file:
msginit --input=po/*.pot --output-file=po/LL_CC.po --locale=LL_CC
* If a PO file exists:
msgmerge --update po/LL_CC.po po/*.pot
Global Run
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From the global i18n directory the steps are:
./launchpad bzronly
ant -Dplugin=plugin singleplugintrans
* The command "launchpad bzronly" exports the latest revision of the
Launchpas translations.
* "ant singleplugintrans" generates the language files in the plugin
data directory. Then it deletes to PO files.
* It is not possible to add the translations of the plugin description
to the manifest.
See Language String Changes
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To see what language strings changed in data/*.lang run this:
svn diff --diff-cmd i18n/diff_lang.pl --force data
To see just removed or modified strings:
svn diff --diff-cmd i18n/diff_lang.pl --force data | grep ^- | grep -v '^--- data/'
To display changes of a single file with tkdiff:
svn diff --diff-cmd i18n/diff_lang.pl --extensions --tkdiff --force data/.lang