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authorJoey Hess <joey@gnu.kitenet.net>2009-07-19 14:16:21 +0200
committerJoey Hess <joey@gnu.kitenet.net>2009-07-19 14:16:21 +0200
commitae4837bb3d3dcc5cea233b0c1ac9f01384d2590d (patch)
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parent4d166acccbd9c46b92bbda93a5e0876d4619afab (diff)
add basewikipo po file generation thing
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@@ -30,3 +30,15 @@ essentially three pieces needed for a complete translation:
1. The [[basewiki]] itself needs to be translated. The
[[plugins/contrib/po]] ikiwiki plugin will allow translating
wikis using po files and can be used for this.
+
+ To generate the po and pot files for translating the basewiki,
+ get ikiwiki's source, and edit the `basewikipo.setup` file,
+ adding your language. Then run 'perl Makefile.PL; make basewikipo`.
+ This will generate many po files under `po/underlays`. The first
+ ones you'll want to translate are in the `po/underlays/basewiki` directory,
+ which is really not very large, just a few thousand words.
+ After that is done, you can tackle those under
+ `po/underlays/directives`, which are a much larger tens of
+ thousands of words.
+
+