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== Add a new language to an existing project ==
 
== Add a new language to an existing project ==
  
If you are adding a language which already exists for another country (e.g. Spanish), then the easiest thing to do is, for example:
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If you are adding a language which already exists for another country (e.g. Spanish), then you must create the language both in the i18n/ directory as well as in the po/ directory.  Secondly, you must also enable it in Pootle.  Finally, you should add a key to the master PO file that names the language.
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=== Add a new language: (1) in your checkout ===
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For our example we consider that the new language is es_PR, which is based on Spanish (es).  For a language not based on another, you can consider it based on English (en).
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First, change directory into your fully-prepared checkout.  Then execute these commands.
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First, we clone Spanish, keeping only the PO file:
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$ svn copy i18n/es i18n/es_PR
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$ cd i18n/es_PR
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$ svn rm --force *.stats *.prefs *.pending
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$ cd ../..
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$ svn copy po/es po/es_PR
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$ cd po/es_PR
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$ svn rm --force *.stats *.prefs *.pending
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$ cd ../..
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$ svn ci -m "Created Puerto Rico PO directory using Spain's as a base" i18n/es_PR po/es_PR
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=== Add a new language: (2) in Pootle ===
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=== Add a new language: (3) update master PO file ===
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the easiest thing to do is, for example:
 
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$ ssh translate.creativecommons.org
 
$ ssh translate.creativecommons.org

Revision as of 21:55, 18 November 2008

So you're an admin of some kind, and you want to:

All of this assumes you have a fully-prepared checkout of svn+ssh://svn@code.creativecommons.org/svnroot/i18n/trunk. One other important note is that CC uses two different types of PO files: The "normal" PO files with English keys, used by Pootle, and also PO files with logical keys, which are used by cc.engine to actually render the site.

  • ./i18n/trunk/po = English-key PO files
  • ./i18n/trunk/i18n = logical-key PO files (CC-style)

Note: most of this is relative to the project creativecommons.org and may or may not apply to other projects.

Fully-prepared checkout

To create a fully prepared checkout, do this:

$ svn co svn+ssh://svn@code.creativecommons.org/svnroot/i18n/trunk i18n-trunk
(a lot of svn output will fly by)

$ cd i18n-trunk
$ python bootstrap/bootstrap.py
(a fair bit of output will follow; the last line should be like:)
Generated script '/some/path/i18n-trunk/bin/buildout'.
$ ./bin/buildout
(a fair bit of output will again follow; the last should be like:)
Generated interpreter '/some/path/i18n-trunk/bin/python'.
$ 

Add a new string

./i18n/trunk/master/cc_org.po

As the directory name implies, this is the "master" PO file. This is a CC-style PO file. You add your new strings to this file using whatever naming rules might be in effect for the type of string you are adding. Commit your change.

./i18n/trunk/bin/sync

Once you have added your new string(s) you must run ./bin/sync with no arguments. This will propagate the new string(s) to all of the English-key PO files. Commit the many changes which should be visible in the ./i18n/trunk/po/ directory.

Make new string(s) available to Pootle

$ ssh translate.creativecommons.org
$ cd /var/www/translate.creativecommons.org/po/
$ svn up

Add a new language to an existing project

If you are adding a language which already exists for another country (e.g. Spanish), then you must create the language both in the i18n/ directory as well as in the po/ directory. Secondly, you must also enable it in Pootle. Finally, you should add a key to the master PO file that names the language.

Add a new language: (1) in your checkout

For our example we consider that the new language is es_PR, which is based on Spanish (es). For a language not based on another, you can consider it based on English (en).

First, change directory into your fully-prepared checkout. Then execute these commands.

First, we clone Spanish, keeping only the PO file:

$ svn copy i18n/es i18n/es_PR
$ cd i18n/es_PR
$ svn rm --force *.stats *.prefs *.pending
$ cd ../..
$ svn copy po/es po/es_PR
$ cd po/es_PR
$ svn rm --force *.stats *.prefs *.pending
$ cd ../..
$ svn ci -m "Created Puerto Rico PO directory using Spain's as a base" i18n/es_PR po/es_PR

Add a new language: (2) in Pootle

Add a new language: (3) update master PO file

the easiest thing to do is, for example:

$ ssh translate.creativecommons.org
$ sudo su - pootle
$ cd /var/www/translate.creativecommons.org/po/cc_org/
$ svn copy es es_PR
$ cd es_PR
$ svn rm --force *.stats *.prefs *.pending
$ svn rm --force es_PR/*.stats
$ cd ..
$ svn ci -m "Created Puerto Rico PO directory using Spain's as a base" es_PR

If you are creating a language that doesn't already exist for some other country, then you can create that language at http://translate.creativecommons.org/admin/languages.html and then add it to a given project using the Pootle interface. You could also follow the steps above, using en_US as a base (in the example above substitute 'es' with 'en_US').

Since you've just added a new language, this is also a good time to add a translatable string for the language name itself. This is done by using the steps outlined above in Add a new string. Using the example above, you should add the following to ./i18n/trunk/master/cc_org.po:

msgid lang.es_PR
msgstr "Spanish (Puerto Rico)"

Change an English string

Changing an English string is done precisely like Adding a new string, with the exception that you modify an existing string in ./i18n/trunk/master/cc_org.po instead of adding a new one.