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3.34 trunk/Locales

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The <tt>`trunk/Locales'</tt> directory exists to store the translation

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messages used to produce content in different languages.
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Translation messages are organized using the directory structure of

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the component being translated. For example, if we want to provide
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translation messages for <tt>`trunk/Manuals/Filesystem'</tt>, then the
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<tt>`trunk/Locales/Manuals/Filesystem'</tt> directory needs to be created.
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Once the locale directory exists for the component we want to provide

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translation messages for, it is necessary to create the translation
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files where translation messages are. The translation files follows
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the concepts of xml2po and GNU gettext tools.
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The basic translation process is as follow: first, translatable

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strings are extracted from files and a portable object template (.pot)
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is created or updated with the information. Using the portable object
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template, a portable object (.po) is created or updated for translator
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to locale the messages retrived.  Finally, a machine object (.mo) is
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created from portable object to sotore the translated messages.
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Inside the repository there are two ways to retrive translatable

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strings from files. The first one is through xml2po command
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and the second through xgettext command. The xml2po
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is used to retrive translatable strings from XML files (e.g., Scalable
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Vector Graphics, DocBook, etc.) and the xgettext command is
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used to retrive translatable strings from shell scripts files (e.g.,
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the files that make the centos-art.sh command-line
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interface).
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When translatable strings are retrived from XML files, using the

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xml2po command, there is no need to create the machine
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object as we do when translatable strings ar retrived from shell
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files, using the xgettext command. The xml2po
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produces a temporal machine object in order to create a translated XML
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file. Once the translated XML file has been created the machine object
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is no longer needed. On the other hand, the machine object produced by
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the xgettext command is required by the system in order for
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the show shell script localized messages.
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need to be aware of is the directory structure used to store machine
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objects. In xml2po, the machine object is created in the
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current working directory as <tt>`.xml2po.mo'</tt> and can be safetly
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removed once the translated XML file has been created. In the case of
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xgettext, the machine object needs to be stored in the
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<tt>`$TEXTDOMAIN/$LOCALE/LL_MESSAGES/$TEXTDOMAIN.mo'</tt> file in order
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for the system to interpret it and should not be removed since it is
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the file that contain the translation messages themselves.
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Automation of localization tasks is achived through the locale

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