Difference between revisions of "Translation for developers/pt"

This synchronisation with Translatewiki needs three types of operation:

You need a GNU/Linux Operating System. This is possible to do also that on other operation systems, but this is more complicated to get a working environment.

* There is two types of translation files to translate the User Interface (Have a look to the *.js and *.xul file in kiwix/chrome/content/main to understand how it works):

* Translatewiki translations are imported separately in the Kiwix code repository on time a week and we always need to synchronize thus files with Kiwix code in both direction (KW->TW and TW -> KW).

''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 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 stuff 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"''.

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

You will need to do that on two place. 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.

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 an other part of Kiwix code repository. Please run outside of your local kiwix code directory following console command:

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

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

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

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

Kiwix tries to add only 100% translated languages coming from Translatewiki. So it happens often that they are more languages in the "maintenance_tools/translatewiki" directory than in the "kiwix/kiwix/chrome/locale" directory. In such a case, that simply mean the 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 following:

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

Add the new language directory and commit like following: