[PD] call for translations for new Pd GUI

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Aug 26, 2009, at 8:34 AM, João Pais wrote:

>> I forgot to add one detail, how to make a new translation:
>>
>> 1) Start with the template file:
>> http://pure-data.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pure-data/branches/pd-devel/0.41.4/po/template.pot
>> 2) rename it to your locale, using the language and maybe country  
>> code:
>> 	- Bulgarian has only one locale, so the file would be bg.po
>> 	- Chinese differs based on country, so it could be zh_CN.po,  
>> zh_HK.po, or zh_TW.po
>> 3) the file most be encoded using UTF-8
>>
>> To run Pd-devel with your translation:
>> 1) svn co https://pure-data.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/pure-data/branches/pd-devel/0.41.4
>> 2) stick your .po into 0.41.4/po/
>> 3) cd 0.41.4/src/locale
>> 4) ./generate-msg.sh (you'll need to have gettext installed)
>> 5) cd ../..    (i.e. back in the root folder of the source, 0.41.4)
>> 6) ./autogen.sh && .configure && make
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I could have some time to work on this, the portugal portuguese  
> version. what are the steps to take on a windows system?

I haven't built it yet on Windows, but will soon.  But you don't need  
to run it to make a translation.  I started a howto to outline the  
process, please add to it anything that is relevant:

http://puredata.info/dev/HowToTranslatePd

.hc

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

As we enjoy great advantages from inventions of others, we should be  
glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and  
this we should do freely and generously.         - Benjamin Franklin