Translation for developers/es

Además del propio trabajo de traducción, el código fuente de Kiwix necesita sincronizarse con Translatewiki.

Esta sincronización con Translatewiki necesita tres tipos de operaciones:

• Agregar una cadena a Kiwix y Translatewiki, es decir. la introducción de una cadena dinámica que será sustituido por la correspondiente traducción en tiempo de ejecución.
• Actualización de las cadenas de kiwix con las traducciones procedentes de Translatewiki.
• Añadir un nuevo, y completamente traducido, lenguaje Translatewiki a Kiwix .

Requerimientos

Necesitarás un Sistema Operativo GNU/Linux Sistema. Es posible hacerlo con otro sistema operativo, pero es más complicado obtener un entorno de trabajo.

Deberas tener algunas cosas en mente:

• Los archivos de traducción de kiwix están todos en el directorio "kiwix/chrome/locale".
• Hay dos tipos de archivos de traducción para traducir la interfaz de usuario (Echa un vistazo a los * .js y archivos * .xul en kiwix/chrome/content/main para entender cómo funciona):
  • "Main.dtd", ofrece traducciones de todos los archivos * .xul
  • "Main.properties", que proporciona traducciones para todos * .js.
• Las traducciones Translatewiki se importan por separado en el repositorio de código Kiwix una vez por semana y siempre se deben sincronizar los archivos con el código Kiwix en ambas direcciones (KW-> TW y TW -> KW).

ADVERTENCIA: Antes de que cualquier modificación del código fuente Kiwix, actualiza los repositorios de código locales con "git pull origin master" en cada uno de ellos.

Obtenga el código y empieza con Kiwix

Antes de comenzar a trabajar en la integración de nuevas cadenas en el código Kiwix, es preferible lograr compilar Kiwix:

• Copiar el código inestable
• Compilarlo
• Ejecutar yendo al subdirectorio kiwix y el lanzador de kiwix .

Remark: If you are not able to compile Kiwix, or do not have xulrunner available (is the case for example on Ubuntu Oneiric and further) you will still be able to start kiwix and get an interface although the application won't work correctly, but that's enough for example to manipulate the XUL files. In this case you will have to make a few additional steps like add "MaxVersion=42.*" as new line to kiwix/application.ini and launch Kiwix using this command in the "kiwix" directory "firefox -app application.ini".

Add a string to the translations

Find a string to localize

Go through the *.xul and *.js files to find hardcoded strings (in English).

If you find one you need to find a string identifier (foobar for example), have a look to the already localized string to see how it should look like. The most important to know is that in the *.xul files, it should look like "&foobar;" and in the *.js like "getProperty('foobar')".

Translate it in the master language English

You will need to do that on two places. First in the "kiwix/chrome/locale/en/main/" main.dtd or main.properties files. In that way the Kiwix application knows what to display if the user interface language is English.

Update Translatewiki files

But you also need to tell Translatewiki to add this string in the list of string it has to provide (for the Translatewiki translators) to translate. For that you need to checkout another part of Kiwix code repository. Please run outside of your local kiwix code directory following console command:

git pull origin master

You have now on your computer the translatewiki translations. What you need is only to update the "en" file which is the master language file for Translatewiki. So simply add your new string following the examples of other already inserted strings and commit your "en" file.

Someone from Translatewiki check each week the "en" file for new strings and synchronized Translatewiki with this file if necessary.

Create stub translation of you new string for all languages

The last thing you need to do is creating stub translation of your new localized string for all supported user interface languages in Kiwix. If you don't do that, Kiwix won't be able to work correctly in a language other than English.

For that purpose you need to use the TW2PL.pl script (this is a perl script, so perl needs to be installed) like following (go in the translatewiki file directory):

./TW2KW.pl --path=/full/path/to/the/kiwix/code/directory --allLanguages=kw

Commit the new Kiwix translation files

Now, all the locale file in kiwix/chrome/locale should be updated and you should have a lot of (modified) files listed by typing:

git status kiwix/chrome/locale

After checking everything is OK, you can commit your modifications: ie. the kiwix/chrome/locale directory and the *.xul and/or *.js files you have modified.

Update Kiwix translations

Another task is to update already supported Kiwix languages with the last strings updated coming from Translatewiki. The first thing to know about that is that in the remote subversion repository, the Translatewiki file (in maintenance/translatewiki) is updated every two weeks from a Translatewiki contributors. That means, you only need to update your local repository and update and commit the kiwix code translation files like this:

cd /full/path/to/the/kiwix/maintenance_tools/translatewiki
./TW2KW.pl --path=/full/path/to/the/kiwix/code/directory --allLanguages=kw
git commit /full/path/to/the/kiwix/code/directory/kiwix/chrome/locale
git push origin master

The full path should be the moulinkiwix directory, not the kiwix directory in it.

Add a new supported language to Kiwix

Kiwix tries to add only 100% translated languages coming from Translatewiki. So it happens often that there are more languages in the "maintenance_tools/translatewiki" directory than in the "kiwix/kiwix/chrome/locale" directory. In such a case, that simply means the Translatewiki language was still not integrated in Kiwix code base. We explain now how to do that.

First of all you need to create the translation files in a new directory at "kiwix/kiwix/chrome/locale/your_language_iso_code" like this:

./TW2KW.pl --path=/full/path/to/your/kiwix/code/base/directory/ --language=your_language_iso_code

After that, you need go to the Kiwix source code directory in "kiwix/chrome" and edit with your preferred text editor the "chrome.manifest" and "chrome.manifest.prod" files. No explanation here, just do like for the already supported languages.

Next edit chrome/content/main/js/languages.js and here also add the new languages.

Now update CHANGELOG and make a notice about the addition of the new supported languages.

Add the new language directory and commit like this:

git add kiwix/chrome/locale/language_iso_code
git commit CHANGELOG kiwix/chrome/chrome.manifest kiwix/chrome/chrome.manifest.prod kiwix/chrome/locale/ kiwix/chrome/content/main/js/gui.js
git push origin master

Véase también

• Translation
• Compilation