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Alexander Watzinger, 2018-12-11 17:14
| 1 | 1 | Alexander Watzinger | h1. Translations |
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| 3 | The user interface was designed with internationalization and localization in mind. Labels and texts are stored in language specific "gettext":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettext files located in openatlas/translations. |
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| 5 | These files can be created or edited with e.g. "Poedit":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poedit even by "non programmers". |
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| 7 | At the moment translations for English and German are available but can easily be extended if translations for other languages are available. |
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| 9 | Update existing translations: |
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| 11 | <pre> |
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| 12 | cd openatlas |
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| 13 | pybabel extract -F translations/babel.cfg -k lazy_gettext -o translations/messages.pot . |
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| 14 | pybabel update -i translations/messages.pot -d translations |
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| 15 | </pre> |
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| 17 | When translating the first time - *WARNING* existing translations get deleted!: |
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| 19 | <pre> |
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| 20 | cd openatlas |
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| 21 | pybabel extract -F translations/babel.cfg -k lazy_gettext -o translations/messages.pot . |
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| 22 | pybabel init -i translations/messages.pot -d translations -l de |
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| 23 | </pre> |