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Some notes for translators
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Notes for translators
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doc: add a new doc/ directory, and move two markdown docs into them I figure sooneror later we'll have more of these docs, hence let's give them a clean place to be. This leaves NEWS and README/README.md as well as the LICENSE texts in the root directory of the project since that appears to be customary for Free Software projects.
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systemd depends on gettext for multilingual support.
Some notes for translators
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In po/ directory you'll find the needed files.
POT (Portable Object Template)
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doc: add a new doc/ directory, and move two markdown docs into them I figure sooneror later we'll have more of these docs, hence let's give them a clean place to be. This leaves NEWS and README/README.md as well as the LICENSE texts in the root directory of the project since that appears to be customary for Free Software projects.
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A text file with .pot extension, with all the extracted labels from code.
Some notes for translators
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To update the template:
$ cd systemd/
$ ninja -C build systemd-pot
To start a new translation:
$ cd po/
$ cp systemd.pot <YOUR-LANG-CODE>.po
Replace <YOUR-LANG-CODE> with the two-letters codes of ISO 639 standard.
PO (Portable Object)
--------------------
A text file with .po extension, with all the available labels and some additional
metadata fields. Any editor is ok, but a good standard is 'poedit', a graphical
application specifically designed for this kind of task.
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