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diff --git a/doc/guide.tex b/doc/guide.tex index afee3376..3c0f8591 100644 --- a/doc/guide.tex +++ b/doc/guide.tex @@ -1409,6 +1409,9 @@ Examples: \end{verbatim} \end{itemize} +Translators and developers can check details in Appendix \ref{i18ni10n}. + + \makesubsection{includeconfigfile}{Include Additional Configuration Files} \ind{options!includeconfigfile}\ind{includeconfigfile} @@ -4263,6 +4266,16 @@ To exit the shell, close the window or press the keys: control+c control+c. \makechapter{i18ni10n}{Internationalization and Localization} \ind{xml:lang}\ind{internationalization}\ind{localization}\ind{i18n}\ind{l10n} +The source code of \ejabberd{} supports localization. +The translators can edit the Gettext PO files using any capable program (KBabel, Lokalizer, Poedit...) or a simple text editor. + +Then \footahref{http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/}{Gettext} +is used to extract, update and export the language files to the MSG format read by \ejabberd{}. +To perform those management tasks, in the \term{src/} directory execute \term{make translations}. +The translatable strings are extracted from source code to generate the file \term{ejabberd.pot}. +This file is merged with each \term{*.po} language file to produce updated language files. +Finally those \term{*.po} files are exported to \term{*.msg} files, that have a format easily readable by \ejabberd{}. + All built-in modules support the \texttt{xml:lang} attribute inside IQ queries. Figure~\ref{fig:discorus}, for example, shows the reply to the following query: \begin{verbatim} |