From 6759650a95627f624039d22dbbadc6085c51ab75 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Peticolas Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 22:23:21 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add README for po files. git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk@3882 57a11ea4-9604-0410-9ed3-97b8803252fd --- ChangeLog | 2 ++ Makefile.am | 3 ++- po/README | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 po/README diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 478bc28b1a..10356acb6c 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ 2001-04-02 Dave Peticolas + * Makefile.am: add po/README + * src/gnome/window-main.c: hide developer menu * src/gnome/window-register.c: add invoice menu item diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am index e01d55d12d..06ea76a56b 100644 --- a/Makefile.am +++ b/Makefile.am @@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ EXTRA_DIST = \ HACKING \ gnucash.lsm \ make-gnucash-patch.in \ - po/.cvsignore + po/.cvsignore \ + po/README ## We borrow guile's convention and use @-...-@ as the substitution ## brackets here, instead of the usual @...@. This prevents autoconf diff --git a/po/README b/po/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ad038180ea --- /dev/null +++ b/po/README @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +Notes on I18n for GnuCash +------------------------- + +To update the .pot file for GnuCash it is best to simply build the +sources using 'make'. Don't run xgettext by hand, because many of the +translatable strings in GnuCash are taken from scheme files and will +be missed. + +GnuCash .pot files contain some strings of the form: + +sample: +Reconciled:R +reconciled:y +not cleared:n +cleared:c +frozen:f + +In each of the cases above, the translator should only translate the +portion after the ':' and leave the rest as is. In the cases of single +letters (such as reconciled:y), the letters are abbreviations of the +word before the colon. The 'sample:' items are strings which are not +displayed, but only used to estimate widths. + +Dave Peticolas +April 02, 2001