LinkChecker Translations

Translations for the application are stored in po/. Translations for the man pages are stored in doc/.

Application Translations

Makefiles using GNU gettext utilities are provided to manage .po and .pot files.

If the strings in the application change, update the .pot and .po files:

linkchecker/po $ rm linkchecker.pot; make

Do make a commit at this point.

Translation progress and validity can be monitored with:

linkchecker/po $ make check

.mo files are not stored in the repository and are created on building, using polib.

Sphinx is used to generate .pot and .po (with sphinx-intl) files in i18n/ and man pages in man/.

Create man.pot file in i18n/gettext/:

linkchecker/doc $ make -C src gettext

Create man.po file in i18n/locales/:

linkchecker/doc/src $ sphinx-intl update -p ../i18n/gettext -l de

These two steps can be performed with:

linkchecker/doc $ make locale

Create man pages:

linkchecker/doc $ hatch -e doc run man

After updating the source files all steps need to be repeated, if translations alone have been changed in the .po file only the last step is needed.