[josm-dev] Translation of Plugins

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Fri, 5 Sep 2014, Vincent Privat wrote:

> - checkin Github (we can access Github through SVN !):

Nice :-)

>> Which files? Po files are simple text. The lang files are direct binary
>> conversion of the po files (we use own .lang instead of standard .mo as the
>> results are much smaller which matters for a download tool).
>>
>> The gettext system is standard in open source software. We wont document
>> this.

One additional note: In old version of build.xml you'll find commandline 
calls for gettext:
https://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/subversion/applications/editors/josm/i18n/build.xml?rev=11529

This contains xgettext calls and msgmerge calls to create the .pot and .po 
files. The call to i18n.pl replaces the standard gettext msgfmt call.

Thought as areaselector is in the default chain you only need to download 
pot and po files from launchpad and create .lang.

Be warned again: Always update all .lang files together, no partial 
updates possible (except en.lang remains unchanged)!

Ciao
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