Dev:2.4/Doc/How to/Localize the Interface

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Interface Internationalization

Interface labels and tips needs to be internationalised.

Interface.fr.png

To do so:

  1. Grab an existing translation file (e.g. German):
Note
The .PO files in SVN are outdated and have many strings un-useful and others that are not included. So, get all .PO files and merge (see GNU gettext binaries) them into a single one, then clean it and begin to work with. This will not give you a full GUI translatable list of strings, but will be as complete as possible.
    1. From the Blender source distribution - po/de.po
    2. From websvn: http://projects.blender.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/trunk/blender/po/?root=bf-blender
  2. Rename it from ‘de.po’ to ‘XX.po’ where XX is your country code. Country Codes: http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#Country-Codes
  3. The .po file consists of message ids (in English) and message strings (translated), e.g.:
msgid "Start the rendering"
msgstr "Starte das rendern"
  1. Translate all the msgstr’s (not the msgid’s!).
  2. Compile the .po file to a .mo file with msgfmt (from gettext).
  3. Copy the compiled .mo file to: ‘.blender/locale/XX/LC_MESSAGES/blender.mo’ (XX = your country code).
  4. Edit ‘.blender/.Blanguages’
  5. Test.
  6. Email your .po file to bf-committers@blender.org


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