Introduction

Translating NautilusSvn is a fairly simple process. We provide a template file that has the English text from our program and a space for the translated text that you will write. The template file is located at nautilussvn/po/NautilusSvn.pot.

Dependencies

You will need the gettext and intltool utilities.

Start a new translation

Figure out your language and locale (i.e. en_US is English/United States, en_CA is English/Canada). For a list of locale code, go here. And for a list of country codes, go here.

Once you open your terminal emulator, type:

$ cd /path/to/nautilussvn
$ msginit --input=po/NautilusSvn.pot --locale=en_CA
$ mv en_CA.po po/en_CA.po

After updating the po/en_CA.po file with your translations, type:

$ mkdir -p locale/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES
$ msgfmt --output-file=locale/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES/NautilusSvn.mo po/en_CA.po

Translating with a GUI

Several programs have been created specifically for translating with .po files. Here is a short list:

• Poedit

Getting your translation to us

Open a new issue in our Issue Tracker and attach the NautilusSvn.mo and .po files that you created. We will immediately update our development trunk, and it will be included in the next official release.