Getting Umit translated to your language

      $ svn co https://umit.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/umit/trunk umit-svn

If you are starting a new translation

  • Copy share/umit/locale/umit.pot to your lang.po, 

      example: $ cp share/umit/locale/umit.pot lang.po
  • Use your favourite translator application or just a text editor to translate your new po file. If you opt to chose a common text editor, you will notice that the file format is straightforward. The "msgid" part is the source string, the "msgstr" part is the translated string.
  • After translating you will have to compile the .po file: 
          $ python install_scripts/utils/i18n/msgfmt.py -o umit.mo lang.po
  • Send lang.po and umit.mo files to a Umit Developer Updating an existing translation 
       $ msgmerge translation_file umit.pot -o new_translation file

Testing Translations 

       $ check_po ...
       $ LANG=lang python umit

Graphical translation application: PoEdit? - http://www.poedit.net/

Umit Developers

  • Remember to update umit.pot (share/umit/locale/umit.pot) after adding, updating or removing translatable strings: (this actually recreates) 
          $ python install_scripts/utils/i18n/pygettext.py
            -o share/umit/locale/umit.pot umitCore umitGUI
  • Structure for share/umit/locale:
  • LANG/LC_MESSAGES/umit.mo
  • LANG/LC_MESSAGES/LANG.po

This page was written by Guilherme Polo

Edited by Luis Bastião Silva