gnucash/po

Notes on I18n for GnuCash

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Please send new and updated .po files to gnucash-patches@gnucash.org.



To update the .pot file for GnuCash it is best to simply build the

sources using 'make'. Don't run xgettext by hand, because many of the

translatable strings in GnuCash are taken from scheme files and will

be missed.





The subdirectory glossary/ contains a glossary of the financial terms

used inside GnuCash. To achieve a decent consistency in terminology

within GnuCash, it is recommended to translate it and to use it during

the translation process. There is one po files per translation of the

glossary. The english definitions are in the file gnc-glossary.txt

which is a tab-delimited ASCII table with each table cell enclosed in

double quotation marks ("). If the file gnc-glossary.txt was updated,

you can build a new glossary.pot file by using the shell script

txt-to-pot.sh so that you can update the po file.





GnuCash .pot files contain some strings of the form:



sample:<some text>

Reconciled:R

reconciled:y

not cleared:n

cleared:c

frozen:f



In each of the cases above, the translator should only translate the

portion after the ':' and leave the rest as is. In the cases of single

letters (such as reconciled:y), the letters are abbreviations of the

word before the colon. The 'sample:' items are strings which are not

displayed, but only used to estimate widths.



Dave Peticolas

April 02, 2001



Christian Stimming, May 24, 2001