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Sonata provides a quick and easy way of creating a translation for your language. If you find this software useful and are capable of adding a language that has not yet been translated, it would be greatly appreciated.

Sonata uses the Transifex plateform as a translation helping plateform, although you can probably also use any gettext compatible translation editor.

In order to add a new translation or update a new translation, you can subscribe to the Transifex project and add yourself to the team of translators according to your preferred language on the Sonata project page.

Once you have a new translation ready, feel free to contact the Sonat's mailing list at [email protected] (registration required at https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/sonata beforehand) or to contact the author by email so your translation will be included in the next release!

Instrutions (mostly for developers)

Using Transifex

You need the Transifex client and to configure your Transifex configuration file (probably ~/.transifexrc) according to the official documentation:

[https://www.transifex.com]
hostname = https://www.transifex.com
token =

username = YOUR TRANSIFEX USERNAME
password = YOUR TRANSIFEX PASSWORD

You can use then the tx command line tool to get or send the translation files from/to Transifex:

To refresh the translation strings on Transifex (so that new translation strings are available to translators):

$ tx push -s

To get/update translations from/to Transifex:

$ tx pull -l fr # Get the latest French translation from transifex.com
...
$ tx push -t fr # Send the latest French translation to transifex.com

You can read the officiel Transifex documentation for more information about using the Transifex client.

Managing the translation without Transifex

You can use the script in script/update-po which wraps intltool, or directly intltool if you want, to manage the translation directly from the Sonata repository.

Warning

Note that Transifex is the preferred plateform to manage translations, and that it should be keep up-to-date with respect to the content of the source tree.

Adding a new translation

  1. Download the latest sources with git
    $ git clone git://github.com/multani/sonata
  2. Generate a template
    $ cd po $ intltool-update -p $ mv untiled.pot <LANGCODE>.po
  3. Translate the strings

Updating an existing translation

  1. Download the latest sources with git
    $ git clone git://github.com/multani/sonata
  2. Update the po file for the language you're updating
    $ intltool-update <LANGCODE>
  3. Translate any strings that are new or fuzzy