# Localization

kupfer is translated using gettext and it is managed in the build system using intltool. Translation messages are located in the po/ directory. The user’s guide is located in the help/ directory and it can also be translated, see its section.

Contents

- To create a new translation

- To update or check an existing translation

- To try the new translation

- User’s Guide

## To create a new translation

Go into the directory po

1. Add the language code $LANG to the file LINGUAS

2. Run intltool-update --pot, and copy untitled.pot to $LANG.po

3. Edit and check the whole file header:

   - Write in yourself as author

   - Check plurals (copy from a language that you know uses the same number of plural forms, or look up in GNOME's translation pages.)

   - Replace everything written in CAPS

Fill in the charset used; Kupfer translations must use the UTF-8 encoding.

When the header is filled-in, go to To update or check an existing translation

## To update or check an existing translation

Go to your Kupfer source directory.

Here we will call your language $LANG. You should use a two or four-letter code for your language instead of $LANG, for example "de" for German or "pt_BR" for Brazilian Portuguese.

Go to the translation directory po:

    cd po/

To update and check the translation file, run:

    intltool-update $LANG

Now check and edit $LANG.po. Search for all messages marked "fuzzy", and remove the word "fuzzy" from them when they are done.

Continue running intltool-update $LANG and check that you have 0 fuzzy and 0 untranslated, then you're finished.

This will also check consistency of the file, so that you know that all your syntax is correct.

## To try the new translation

Make sure the translation is listed in po/LINGUAS.

To try it, you have to install kupfer with ./waf install, then you can run kupfer as normal.

Note

If you run ./kupfer-run from the source directory it won't find the installed translations unless you make a symlink called locale to the installed location (for example ~/.local/share/locale if install prefix was ~/.local):

    $ ln -s ~/.local/share/locale

## User’s Guide

Go to help/. The english-language original of the user’s guide is defined in the C/ directory. Use make $LANG inside help to update a language’s .po file. Currently, the best way to view the translated help page during development is to run the regular build and install, which puts the help pages under $PREFIX/help/$LANG/kupfer.