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author | Badlop <badlop@process-one.net> | 2008-08-18 09:17:58 +0000 |
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committer | Badlop <badlop@process-one.net> | 2008-08-18 09:17:58 +0000 |
commit | 2be5cb9b50add1bfcfcc75d130ed3f5020c0f2c2 (patch) | |
tree | 2de7f5705d35061d0cfbd98712452bb1b84f1637 /doc/guide.tex | |
parent | * contrib/extract_translations/extract_translations.erl: Use (diff) |
Minor fixes in text about ejabberd localization
SVN Revision: 1528
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guide.tex b/doc/guide.tex index 3c0f85912..d2bb0603a 100644 --- a/doc/guide.tex +++ b/doc/guide.tex @@ -1392,7 +1392,7 @@ Examples: \ind{options!language}\ind{language} The option \option{language} defines the default language of server strings that -can be seen by \Jabber{} clients. If a \Jabber{} client do not support +can be seen by \Jabber{} clients. If a \Jabber{} client does not support \option{xml:lang}, the specified language is used. The default value is \term{en}. In order to take effect there must be a translation file \term{<language>.msg} in \ejabberd{}'s \term{msgs} directory. @@ -1409,7 +1409,7 @@ Examples: \end{verbatim} \end{itemize} -Translators and developers can check details in Appendix \ref{i18ni10n}. +Appendix \ref{i18ni10n} provides more details about internationalization and localization. \makesubsection{includeconfigfile}{Include Additional Configuration Files} @@ -4267,14 +4267,16 @@ To exit the shell, close the window or press the keys: control+c control+c. \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. +The translators can edit the +\footahref{http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/}{gettext} .po files +using any capable program (KBabel, Lokalize, 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{}. +Then gettext +is used to extract, update and export those .po 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{}. +This file is merged with each .po file to produce updated .po files. +Finally those .po files are exported to .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: |