## Instructions for helping translate text for Vidalia, TorButton ## and TorCheck ## ( More translation information for Tor related apps will accumulate here ) Our translations are handled in one of two places. The Tor Translation Portal handles all of the translations for Vidalia, Torbutton and TorCheck. The Tor website itself is currently handled by hand translations using subversion. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- For the Tor website, you'll need a Tor SVN account. If you do not have one and you need one, please run this command with your desired username in place of 'USERNAME': htdigest -c passwd.tmp "Tor subversion repository" USERNAME and send us the contents of passwd.tmp. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- For the Portal-based projects, all three check in their respective .po files into the following subversion urls: https://tor-svn.freehaven.net/svn/translation/trunk/projects/torbutton https://tor-svn.freehaven.net/svn/translation/trunk/projects/torcheck https://svn.vidalia-project.net/svn/vidalia/trunk/src/vidalia/i18n/ The current pootle configuration is checked into subversion as well: https://tor-svn.freehaven.net/svn/translation/trunk/pootle ---------------------------- TorCheck ------------------------------- TorCheck uses our translation portal to accept translations. Users use the portal to check in their changes. To make use of the translations that users have commited to the translations/ subversion module, you'll need to ensure that you have a current checked out copy of TorCheck: cd check/trunk/i18n/ check/trunk/i18n$ svn up You should see something like the following: Fetching external item into 'pootle' External at revision 15300. At revision 15300. Now if you had changes, you'd simply want to move the newly updated .po files into the current stable directory. Moving the .po files from 'check/trunk/i18n/pootle/' into 'check/trunk/i18n' properly naming the files for their respective locale. Here's an example of how to move all of the current pootle translations into the svn trunk area of TorCheck: cd check/trunk/i18n/ for locale in `ls -1 pootle/|grep -v template`; do mv -v pootle/$locale/TorCheck_$locale.po TorCheck_$locale.po; done Now check the differences (ensure the output looks reasonable): svn diff Ensure that msgfmt has no errors: msgfmt -C *.po And finally check in the changes: svn commit ---------------------------- Torbutton ------------------------------- Torbutton uses our translation portal to accept translations. Users use the portal to check in their changes. To make use of the translations that users have commited to the translations/ subversion module, you'll need to ensure that you have a current checked out copy of them in your torbutton git checkout: cd torbutton.git/trans_tools torbutton.git/trans_tools$ svn co https://tor-svn.freehaven.net/svn/translation/trunk/projects/torbutton pootle You should see something like the following: Checked out revision 21092. If you made changes to strings in Torbutton, you need to rebuild the templates in torbutton.git/trans_tools/pootle/templates. This is done with the following command from within the torbutton.git checkout directory: moz2po -P -i src/chrome/locale/en/ -o trans_tools/pootle/templates/ You now have two options: Option 1 (The [shitty] Pootle Web UI Way): View then commit the changes to the template with: cd trans_tools/pootle svn diff templates svn commit templates Then poke Jake to 'svn up' on the Pootle side. If you do this enough times, he may give you a button to click to update templates in Pootle, or maybe even an account on the Pootle server. Persistence is a virtue. You then need to go to the Pootle website and click the checkbox next to every language on: https://translation.torproject.org/projects/torbutton/admin.html and then click "Update Languages" at the bottom. You then need to go to each language and go to "Editing Options" and click "Commit" for each one. You then need to 'svn up' locally, and follow the procedure above for rebuilding your .dtd and .properties files. Yes, this sucks. :/ Option 2 (Use your own msgmerge: YMMV, may change .po flags and formatting): Run msgmerge yourself for each language: cd trans_tools for i in `ls -1 pootle` do msgmerge -U ./pootle/$i/torbutton.dtd.po ./pootle/templates/torbutton.dtd.pot msgmerge -U ./pootle/$i/torbutton.properties.po ./pootle/templates/torbutton.properties.pot done svn diff pootle svn commit pootle Then poke Jake to 'svn up' on the Pootle side. If you do this enough times, he may give you a button on Pootle, or maybe even an account on the Pootle server. Persistence is a virtue. You may notice that some .po file flags and string formatting have changed with this method, depending on your gettext version. It is unclear if this is a problem. Please update this doc if you hit a landmine and everything breaks :) After this process is done, you then need to regenerate the mozilla .dtd and .properties files as specified above. Regardless of wether or not you had changes in the torbutton strings, if there were updated strings in pootle that you checked out from svn you now need to convert from .po and move the newly updated mozilla files into the current stable locale directory. First convert them with the 'mkmoz.sh' script and then move the proper mozilla files from 'torbutton.git/trans_tools/moz/' into 'torbutton.git/src/chrome/locale/' directory while properly naming the files for their respective locale. Here's an example of how to move all of the current pootle translations into the svn trunk area of Torbutton: cd trans_tools ./mkmoz.sh for locale in `ls -1 moz/`; do mv -v moz/$locale/*.{dtd,properties} ../src/chrome/locale/$locale/ done Now check the differences to your git branch to ensure the output looks reasonable: cd .. git diff And finally check in the changes: cd src/chrome/locale git commit . ---------------------------- Vidalia ------------------------------- Vidalia uses our translation portal to accept translations. Users use the portal to check in their changes. No conversion or moving is required other than normal pootle usage.