sane-project-backends/po/README

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2002-12-02
This directory contains translations for the options of the SANE backends.
They are only used if the gettext tools are found by configure.
You will need GNU gettext: xgettext, msgfmt and msgmerge. The translations
are used at least by the frontends XSane and quiteinsane.
What do you need to do if you want to:
- Just read the description of SANE options in your language
* Use XSane or your favourite frontend that supports translations, read the
documentation and set LANG to your local setting (e.g. de_DE for German
language in Germany). Make sure, that you use a recent version of the
frontends.
- Update existing translations when the source code has changed
* cd po ; make
* Edit sane-backends.lang.po, add/change translations. (with lang = your
language, e.g. "de")
* make install
- Add a new language
* Edit po/Makefile.in, add your language to ALL_LINGUAS and add
sane-backends.lang.po to DISTFILES.
* ./configure
* cd po
* touch sane-backends.lang.po
* make
* Edit sane-backends.lang.po and enter translations. You only need to enter
the translations for texts actually used by your backend but the more you
can translate, the better. Don't forget to edit the headers. UTF-8 is the
preferred encoding.
* make install
- Add a translation for a completely untranslated backend
* Edit the source code of the backend and add SANE_I18N to the appropriate
strings. Mark the descriptions (desc) and titles of options with
SANE_I18N(). Do the same for string lists used in options. The name of
options must NOT be marked. Do NOT mark macros. Especially you don't need
to mark standard option strings like SANE_TITLE_NUM_OPTIONS as this is
already done in saneopts.h.
Examples: s->opt[5].title = SANE_I18N("Enhancement");
#define STANDARD_FORMAT SANE_I18N("a4 Paper")
* Edit po/Makefile.in. Add all soucecode files that conatain strings marked
by SANE_I18N() to SRC_FILES.
* If you want to also add a new language, see above.
* ./configure
* cd po ; make
* Edit sane-backends.lang.po, enter translations. Add your name/email address
to the header. If you don't agree with an already existing translation, ask
the sane-devel mailing list.
* make install
- Add support in your frontend:
* The Makefile installs files called "sane-backends.mo" in the directory
"$(prefix)/share/locale/lang/LC_MESSAGES/", e.g.:
"/usr/local/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/sane-backends.mo". For every
language exactly one .mo file is installed. Earlier releases of
sane-backends installed one file per backend, e.g. sane-umax.mo. For
backward compatibility, frontends may want to check for these files, also.
* As mentioned above, GNU gettext is used.
* With other NLS implementations, converting the mo files may work.
Bugs:
- Using sed to include macros into *.pot isn't nice.