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| author | Burt P <pburt0@gmail.com> | 2017-07-19 14:31:18 -0500 |
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| committer | Leandro A. F. Pereira <leandro@hardinfo.org> | 2017-07-19 13:04:52 -0700 |
| commit | ae4934d97fecea3d0a1fd70616e7790d75070e47 (patch) | |
| tree | 072bac7ec19bede56071047587dc2c8ab926628e /po | |
| parent | f453c064146452116ee21af7d1a5528108b76060 (diff) | |
po/HOWTO.txt: copy notes from CONTRIBUTING
Remove old notes.
Signed-off-by: Burt P <pburt0@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'po')
| -rw-r--r-- | po/HOWTO.txt | 20 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/po/HOWTO.txt b/po/HOWTO.txt index 2a0775dd..afe9a8c2 100644 --- a/po/HOWTO.txt +++ b/po/HOWTO.txt @@ -1,15 +1,9 @@ +Translators +=========== -To update the .pot and existing translations use: - bash updatepo.sh - ------ - -update .pot : - --don't!-- make pot in build/ - absolute paths will appear in the .pot - try : - xgettext -d hardinfo -o hardinfo.pot -k_ -kN_ -kC_:1c,2 -kNC_:1c,2 -c/ --from-code=UTF-8 ... - -update .po files after .pot update : - msgmerge -N XX.po hardinfo.pot > XX_.po && mv XX_.po XX.po +IF POSSIBLE, run `bash updatepo.sh` in the po/ directory before begining. +This will regenerate hardinfo.pot and update all the .po files. +NOTHING IS LOST if this isn't done, but it prevents wasting time translating +strings that have changed, or are no longer used. +DO NOT use `make pot`! |