Translation

The applications are directly reading po files.

What are po files? po (portable object) files are used by the gettext translation system and a lot of tools exist to edit them (e.g. poedit)

To create a new translation you should use the pot file located in data/shared in the repository.

After you've created a new po file, copy them into any of the search paths and give it the name as specified here.

Example: Name it after the pattern ll_CC where ll is an ISO-639 two-letter language code, and CC is an ISO-3166 two-letter country code.

If you create a new translation it would be nice if you would contribute it to the project.

Updating the pot file

There is a Makefile target called pot - so if you have gnu make installed, just run make pot in the root of the project. Otherwise use the tool xgettext to extract the strings from the source code.