I18N

This document describes the steps for a new language:

Translate the string which are embedded into perl:
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1. create a new directory src/common/lib/locale/xy_XY
2. copy src/common/lib/locale/openca.pot to src/common/lib/locale/xy_XY/openca.po
3. translate the openca.po
4. compile the openca.po with msgfmt (msgfmt openca.po -o openca.mo)

Notice: strings like __FILE__ must be present in the translations too
        because they are dynamically replaced by OpenCA - yes, they
        are placeholders for variables :)

Translate the javascript-code:
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1. create a new directory src/common/lib/javascript/xy_XY/
2. copy all files from src/common/lib/javascript/C/ to xy_XY
3. translate the files

Translate the mails:
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1. create a new directory src/common/lib/mails/xy_XY/
2. copy all files from src/common/lib/mails/C/ to xy_XY
3. translate the files

Activate your language:
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1. Add the new language code to the variable TRANSLATIONS in
   Makefile.global-vars.in.
2. Add your language to the file src/common/etc/menu.xml.template.
3. Add the new language code to the variable TRANSLATIONS in
   src/common/lib/locale/pot/Makefile.
4. Add the language to %supportedLanguages in
   src/common/lib/functions/initServer.
5. Add the encoding to %encodings in src/common/lib/functions/initServer.

Any comments and translations are welcome.

Michael Bell <michael.bell@web.de>
2004-Apr-19

translators:
 de_DE Michael Bell            <michael.bell@web.de>
 en_GB actually nobody         <michael.bell@web.de>
 es_ES Julio Sanchez Fernandez <j.sanchezf@terra.es>
 fr_FR Nicolas Pouvesle        <npouvesle@webindustrie.fr>
 it_IT Simone Rossi            <simone.rossi@hp.com>
 ja_JP Takahiro Tsuji          <openca@poplar.complex.eng.hokudai.ac.jp>
 pl_PL Franciszek Lewenda      <F.Lewenda@nask.pl>
 sl_SI Janez Pirc              <openca@si-ca.org>
 ru_RU Peter Grigorievo        <pgrig@cryptocom.ru>