On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Cole <[email protected]> wrote: > I have just joined the list as I was looking to help/start a Welsh language > translation
If you haven't read it already, http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/TipsForTranslators might contain useful information for you. > what I am unsure of however is how to test to .po when I make > a new one. Translators might have cleaner ways to do this, but if you have Pidgin installed you could probably just compile your .po file to a .gmo file and place it next to all the other installed Pidgin translations. When you restart Pidgin it should find your new translation automatically. The command to compile a po file to a gmo file is: msgfmt -o cy.gmo cy.po If you're using a GUI for translation, it might be able to do this for you. Also, if you're using Windows I'm guessing you won't have msgfmt installed. You could probably install it along with cygwin, if you really wanted to. On Linux the gmo file will probably be installed to somewhere like: /usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo Note that it's generally recommended that people not change files in /usr/share/ directly, since these files are usually managed by your distributions package manager. You could do it anyway, since this usage isn't egregious, or you could compile Pidgin yourself and install to a local prefix (like /home/cole/mypidgin/). I'm not sure where these files live on Windows. To specify Welsh when starting Pidgin, start it with: LANGUAGE=cy pidgin > Also I saw a bit of a thing about plurals – but I can’t see where > they are applied. I'm not sure what you're asking. In English there are two plural forms: "1 file" "2 files" Some languages have more plural forms. Here's the Polish example: "1 plik" "2,3,4 pliki" "5-21 pliko'w" "22-24 pliki" "25-31 pliko'w" You should specify a value for Plural-Forms at the top of your po file. You can probably look up what this value should be for Welsh and just use that. I don't know whether this is accurate, but Welsh is listed here: http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/l10n/pluralforms The GNU gettext manual has good information about translating plural forms: http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#Translating-plural-forms _______________________________________________ Translators mailing list [email protected] http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/translators
