Add README for po files.

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk@3882 57a11ea4-9604-0410-9ed3-97b8803252fd

ChangeLog

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 2001-04-02  Dave Peticolas  <dave@krondo.com>
 
+	* Makefile.am: add po/README
+
 	* src/gnome/window-main.c: hide developer menu
 
 	* src/gnome/window-register.c: add invoice menu item

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

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:<some text>
+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