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App::I18N

Description

App::I18N borrows some good stuff from Jifty::I18N and tries to provide a general po management script for all frameworks | applications.

Basic flow

Basic po file manipulation:

parse strings from lib path:

$ cd app
$ po parse lib

this will generate:

po/app.pot

please modify the CHARSET in po/app.pot.

... modify CHARSET ...

create new language file (po file):

po lang en
po lang fr
po lang ja
po lang zh_TW

this will generate:

po/en.po
po/fr.po
po/ja.po
po/zh_TW.po

do translations

....

when you added more message in your application. you might need to update po messages, but you dont have to delete/recreate these po files, you can just parse your messages again all of your translations will be kept. eg:

$ po parse parse lib

do translation again ...

Generate locale and mo file for php-gettext or anyother gettext i18n app:

parse strings from . path and use --locale (locale directory structure) , --mo (generate mo file) option:

$ cd app
$ po parse --locale --mo .

(the same):

$ po parse -g .

this will generate:

po/app.pot

please modify the CHARSET in po/app.pot.

... modify CHARSET ...

create new language file (po file and mo file) in locale directory structure:

$ po lang  --locale --mo en
$ po lang  --locale --mo zh_TW

(the same):

$ po lang -g zh_TW

this will generate:

po/en/LC_MESSAGES/app.po
po/en/LC_MESSAGES/app.mo
po/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/app.po
po/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/app.mo

(you can use --podir option to generate those stuff to other directory)

... do translation here ...

if you use mo file , you might need to update mo file.

$ po update --mo

eg:

-project (master) % po update --mo --podir locale
    Updating locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/project.po
    Updating locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/project.mo
    9 translated messages, 53 untranslated messages.

Usage

create dictionary files for language:

$ po lang zh_tw en

parse i18n strings:

$ po parse bin lib static share/web/static/js ...

start a web server to edit po file:

$ po server -f po/en.po

start a web server to edit po file of specified language:

$ po server --lang en

extract message from files and start a web server:

$ po server --dir lib --dir share/static --lang en

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