Interface translation

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This article explains how to see your translated po files ingame. It assumes you use a git clone of UH. All paths are, unless specified otherwise, relative to this clone's master directory. You might need to replace python calls by python2, python2.6 or python2.7.

Input

one or more .po files that contain translated strings

Download from pootle:

• click on the speech in the overview
• click on the project (Unknown Horizons: Interface for example)
• click on Translate tab
• There is the download button

Output

bytecode .mo files in content/lang/ which can be selected in our settings as language

• Download all .po files you wish to test from our main UH project at pootle.

• Move all pofiles into the directory po/. The appropriate language code as filename needs to be preserved.

Now choose one path:

A Unix / Mac

• In the main UH directory (where setup.py is located) run
  user@pc: unknown-horizons$ 

  python ./setup.py build_i18n
  • Do this whenever you edited a .po file
  • On Arch Linux: use python2 instead of python

B Win

• In the main UH directory (where development/ is located) run
  user: unknown-horizons> 

  python ./development/compile_translations_win.py
  • Do this whenever you edited a .po file

• Please report any error or warning output to a translation admin of this language or the translation team at pootle!

• Now the updated files content/lang/($language)/LC_MESSAGES/unknown-horizons.mo should reside in unknown-horizons/.

• If the language was not available before, you might need to edit the LANGUAGENAMES dict in horizons/constants.py and add a description for the new language there. Please also report this or create a patch in case we forgot it.